The Year of Magical Thinking
By Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking (2009)
Robyn Nevin as Joan Didion
Overview
Cate Blanchett directs Robyn Nevin in this critically acclaimed one-woman show, based on Joan Didion’s best-selling memoir. Secure in her work, happily married and with a daughter she loved, in 2003 Didion’s entire world suddenly went from the ordinary to the unimaginable. In one terrible year she was forced to deal with her daughters life-threatening disease and the sudden death of her husband. How Didion coped with her incredible loss lies at the heart of this candid, poignant and compassionate play.
Joan Didion is one of the great American essayists and novelists of the past 50 years, whose writing is marked by a unique combination of the personal and the universal. The Year of Magical Thinking is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary marriage.
Director: Cate Blanchett
Associate Director: Jennifer Flowers
Set Designer: Alice Babidge
Costume Designer: Giorgio Armani
Sound Designer: Natasha Anderson
Lighting Designer: Nick Schlieper
Cast: Robyn Nevin
Venue: CREMORNE THEATRE
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins (no interval)
Special Events
Play Briefing: Monday 14 September
6.30pm – 7.30pm, Bille Brown Studio
78 Montague Road, South Brisbane
Find out more about what goes on behind-the-scenes with this special opportunity to meet and hear artists and guest speakers discuss productions. Free for Queensland Theatre Company Season Ticket holders, $6.00 for General Public. There is no need to book. Venue opens at 5.45pm, and tickets can be purchased from the Box Office.
Night with the Actors: Thursday 1 October and Thursday 8 October
An opportunity after a performance to hear the cast discuss the play and to ask questions. Hosted by one of Brisbane’s favourite performers Carol Burns
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