6/22/2023 0 Comments The year of magical thinkingRedgrave came out of the stage door after the performance she was wearing a VERY much washed and worn T-shirt and Jeans. The play was also different because she had an audience and she gets juiced because of them. I really wish they had recorded the original play for video and audio. Redgrave was 70 when she was in the play and now is 83 so there is a bit of a difference in her voice. There is a difference in the play and the recording. Sentences that begin with "if" are often magical thinking. That is a good example of magical thinking. In the early part she says she thinks he is still alive in California due to the time difference. I think people often do not understand what magical thinking is. It was very difficult to hear the pain and confusion. Redgrave sitting on the stage as if just telling us the story. I flew from Florida to NYC that morning so I was worried after hearing she had let the understudy take her place the night before. The evening before she had not been well and had canceled. She entered the theater looking really bad. I saw Vanessa Redgrave do the first run of The Year of Magical Thinking in 2007 on Broadway. The words here are from the one woman play of the same name. about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.** Important to know that this is a shorter version of the book by the same name available on Audible but not narrated by Vanessa Redgrave. book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Days later - the night before New Year's Eve - the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a life, in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Knopf Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor The Arcadia Fund Contributor Internet Archive Language English 1 TITLE, Dunne, John Gregory - 1932-2003 - Death and burial, Novelists, American - 20th century - Family relationships, Novelists, American - 20th century - Biography, Journalists - United States - Biography, Mothers and daughters - United States, Widows - United States - Biography, Loss (Psychology), Grief, Families, Journalists, Marriage, Mothers and daughters, Novelists, American, Novelists, American - Family relationships, Widows, Rouw, Verlies (psychologie), Ehe, Familie, Mothers, United States, Book group discussion kits Publisher New York : Alfred A. NOVELISTS, AMERICAN-20TH century-BIOGRAPHY. DUNNE, JOHN GREGORY, active 1932-DEATH AND BURIAL. Publication date 2005 Topics Didion, Joan, Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003 - Death and burial, Didion, Joan - Marriage, Didion, Joan - Family, Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003, Didion, Joan 1934-, Dunne, John Gregory 1932-2003, Dunne, John Gregory, DIDION, JOAN 2 NOVELISTS, AMERICAN-20TH CENTURY-FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.
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