The Year of Magical Thinking

BAY AREA PREMIERE




By Joan Didion  |   Directed By Nancy Carlin


NOW EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 28

STARRING STACY ROSS

In this dramatic adaptation of her critically lauded, National Book Award-winning memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden unexpected loss of her husband, novelist John Gregory Dunne, and the illness of their daughter, Quintana, into a stunning one-woman play. In her grief, Didion found herself living inside self-protective delusions in the form of “magical thinking,” for she knows if she falls into the “vortex” of reality, she will be lost. Bringing her trademark style of cool observation, along with a personal and heartbreaking story, Joan Didion has crafted a singularly moving, theatrical experience.

“AN INTENSELY PERSONAL YET UNIVERSAL STORY OF HOPE IN THE FACE OF INESCAPABLE LOSS.”  — PLAYBILL 

 

The Year of Magical Thinking runs approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. There is no intermission.

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Season sponsors

Ed & Liliane Schneider

Sponsors

Tamra C. Hege

George & Candy Hisert

The Estate of Ines Lewandowitz

Associate Sponsors

Deborah & Howard Goodman

Sallie Weissinger

Tom & Amy Worth 

Cast & Crew Sponsors

Helen & John Meyer