The year of magical thinking: the play (Vintage Publishing)

"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you..." In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in "The New York Times "called "an indelible portrait of loss and grief... A haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. The first theatrical production of "The Year of Magical Thinking" opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed aby David Hare.