National Theatre
South Bank, SE1
020.7452.3000
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Vanessa Redgrave in The Year of Magical Thinking, Photo: Brigitte Lacombe
- When
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Friday 25 Apr 2008 (8pm)
Saturday 26 Apr 2008 (8pm)
Monday 28 Apr 2008 (8pm)
Tuesday 29 Apr 2008 (8pm)
Wednesday 30 Apr 2008 (7pm)
Thursday 1 May 2008 (8pm)
Wednesday 7 May 2008 (8pm)
Thursday 8 May 2008 (3 & 8pm)
Friday 9 May 2008 (8pm)
Saturday 10 May 2008 (3 & 8pm)
Thursday 15 May 2008 (8pm)
Friday 16 May 2008 (8pm)
Saturday 17 May 2008 (3 & 8pm)
Monday 19 May 2008 (8pm)
Tuesday 20 May 2008 (3 & 8pm)
- Where
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Tube: Embankment, Waterloo
- Price
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Various prices
- Links
When writer Joan Didion's husband died suddenly at the end of 2003, in the midst of their only daughter's hospitalisation with an unknown, life-threatening illness, Didion began keeping the diary that would become her award-winning memoir The Year of Magical Thinking. For her, recording the day-to-day struggle between despair and disbelief was the only way she could bear the grief. Didion later adapted her book for the stage, making it a must-see production on Broadway last year. The personal meditation on mourning and loss makes for a bleakly moving one-woman monologue, starring Vanessa Redgrave under the illuminating direction of David Hare.
