Vanessa Redgrave will take to the stage a week from tomorrow in a Broadway adaptation of Joan Didion's best-seller The Year of Magical Thinking, directed by Oscar-nominated playwright David Hare (The Hours).What I would give to be able to see that.
The Year of Magical Thinking, about a particularly devastating portion of her life, details Didion’s feelings from the death of her husband and longtime collaborator, John Gregory Dunne, from a massive heart attack on December 30, 2003, to the nightmare-ish experience of seeing their only daughter lay unconscious in a hospital after suffering septic shock. (She died a few months later.)
In response, Didion found a safe harbor in "magical thinking," stunned that "life changes in the instant," and feeling an irrational certainty that her husband "will come back and need his shoes."
Now, if this combination of actress and material isn’t irresistible, I don’t know what is.
Photo: NewYorkCityTheatre.com.
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