It's a play about grief that's unsentimental and easy to absorb and so personal. That's how Pamela Vogel describes The Year of Magical Thinking about to open at Main Street Theater. Based on the National Book Award winning book of the same title by renowned author Joan Didion (Slouching Towards...
Based on the National Book Award winning book of the same title by renowned author Joan Didion the play relates Didion's feelings as they are happening as her husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly and her daughter is seriously ill and hospitalized.
Didion herself transformed her book into a play. Vogel is the only person on stage throughout the one-act which is directed by Main Street's Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden."We have this character Joan actively telling her story. It's not a memory play. She's telling me this right now. She's just stepped into a space where you can imagine one or a hundred are listening. It doesn't matter. It’s very personal.".
"How lovely to love and be loved. But the excruciating loss is so huge that it cannot be escaped. And somehow we survive through it. She looks for ways to survive in her magical thinking. And during the course of the evening she lets go of that. You think it's going to be how she pretends her way out. But no, she uses magical thinking to go into it and come out. So all of that is a journey through something, not a memory of something that already happened and I solved.
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