The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Signed Theatrical Poster.

DIDION, Joan. [Vanessa Redgrave].

$750.00

Item Number: 143250

New York: Prof. D.R. McClennahan, 2006.

Original theatrical poster from Vanessa Redgrave’s performance of Didion’s 2005 best-selling memoir at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. Signed by Joan Didion and Vanessa Redgrave on the lower portion of the poster. In near fine condition.

"This theatrical version of [Didion's] account of losing her husband and her daughter within two years includes classic Didionesque sentences, as hard and translucent as hailstones. But it is in the quiet between the words, as she tastes and digests what she has said, that Ms. Redgrave — playing a character named Joan Didion — comes closest to capturing Ms. Didion’s voice and the delicate layering of harsh feelings that made the book such a stunner" (Ben Brantley, The New York Times Theatrical Review).