a play by Joan Didion
based on her memoir

The Year of Magical Thinking, adapted for the stage by Joan Didion from her best-selling memoir of the same name, chronicles the aftermath of her husband's sudden death.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We know that someone close to us could die. We might expect to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect to be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy - cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return and need his shoes.

Following a sell-out run on Broadway in 2007, Vanessa Redgrave repeats her award-winning solo performance in David Hare's celebrated production which now receives its UK premiere.

‘Vanessa Redgrave is the reason The Year of Magical Thinking is not only the hottest ticket in town, but also the theatrical event of the season... That the audience is rapt is an understatement.'
Observer

‘Poignant, heartbreaking, and wry; the emotions here are so genuine that we can't help but be affected by them.'
Newsweek

Read David Hare's article about working with Joan Didion from the Guardian.

All performances of The Year of Magical Thinking are now sold out.