'The Year of Magical Thinking'announces design team, performances begin from 6 Mar 2006 at the Booth

The creative team has been announced for the stage adaptation of Joan Didion's autobiographical book, The Year of Magical Thinking, which will open at the Booth Theatre on the 29 Mar 2007, following perviews from 6 Mar 2007.

Set desgin for the show will be by Tony Award winner Bob Crowley, with costumes by Ann Roth and lighting by Jean Kalman.

As previously reported the one-woman show will be directed by David Hare and star Vanessa Redgrave. The play is being produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin.

Joan Didion's autobiographical book, 'The Year of Magical Thinking', gives an account of the fear, despair and exasperation of bereavement, that followed the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, after a heart attack at the dinner table.

Joan Didion had been married to John Gregory Dunne for 39 years, during which they had been thriving literary partners, writing screenplays together, often adaptations of each other's novels.

At the time of his death, their daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, was lying unconscious in the hospital after a bout of the flu turned into pneumonia and then septic shock, which lead to her death in Aug 2005, aged 39.

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Vanessa Redgrave