Abstract
‘This happened on December 30th 2003’ she began, the American drawl initially disconcerting from such a very British icon. ‘That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. The details will be different, but it will happen to you. That's what I'm here to tell you.’ Although I'll own that a play about losing your spouse and daughter is not the obvious choice for a wedding anniversary treat, the opportunity to see Vanessa Redgrave as Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking this Autumn was too rare to pass up. So we listened as she quietly raged against the injustice of her husband's sudden death, her grief creating a type of magical thinking that meant she had to keep his shoes and clothes for his …
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