The Studio Theatre - Metheny Theatre (Washington, DC)
Joan Didion's astonishing, critically-acclaimed 2005 memoir The Year of Magical Thinking chronicled the year in her life following the sudden death of her husband -- a year when Didion also had to care for her terminally ill daughter. Didion has adapted the book into a one-woman play, which comes to Washington for the first time at the Studio Theatre.
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The last date listed for The Year of Magical Thinking was Sunday July 12, 2009 / 7:30pm (Closing Night). (view all dates)
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Thought provoking, emotional and mad! Really, really liked this one woman play. Joan Didion did an excellent job writing this and Helen Hedman gave an excellent performance on the closing night.
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Thought-provoking monologue about Joan Didion dealing with the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and the comatose and eventual death of their daughter, Quintana. Certainly not a happy evening, but it does make one think and realize how important it is to live life to the fullest each and every day. Occasional comic relief juxtaposed with the reality of mortality vs. immortality. Excellent performance by Helen Hedman.
Serious theater, very well acted. Didion deals with loss and pain in a moving way.
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The Studio Theatre consists of a four-venue performance complex in Logan Circle, occupying two historic automobile showrooms. The complex was expanded beginning in 2001, at which time the Metheny Theatre was added. All of the theaters share an entrance, an atrium and an impressive architectural style, blending the old and the new.
Website: http://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/plays_details.php?plays_id=156
By Joan Didion
Directed by Joy Zinoman
Starring Helen Hedman
After the death of her husband and daughter, Joan Didion distilled her grief into an astonishing memoir. Her adaptation of that razor-sharp work features a single actress and Didion’s unforgettable prose.
Photo by Denis Piel courtesy Condé Nast Publications.
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