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The Year of Magical Thinking - 3 Performances
The Salem Theatre Company is
proud to present a three-performance run of Joan Didion’s acclaimed theatrical
adaptation of her novel, The Year of
Magical Thinking. The production,
directed by Christine Elizabeth Fogarty and featuring Anne Kraft, will run
November 7, 8 & 9 in the STC Theater, 90 Lafayette Street in downtown
Salem.
The production is sponsored by
Structures North Consulting Engineers, Inc. of 60 Washington Street in Salem.
In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling
memoir (which The
New York Times called
"an indelible portrait of loss and grief...a haunting portrait of a
four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and
unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and
powerful one-woman play. The play begins, "This happened on December 30,
2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...and it
will happen to you."
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“We are very excited to present this as part of our
Second Stage Series,” said John Fogle Artistic Director for Salem Theatre
Company. “Ms. Kraft approached us about
presenting it, and we felt that this was a wonderful opportunity for us.”
Ms.
Kraft, appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional
actor’s union, has credits from coast to coast and spent many years in New
York City and Hollywood, CA. Her regional theater credits include leading
roles in The Glass Menagerie, Fiddler on
the Roof, Annie, Plaza Suite, The Sea
Gull, Rumors, To Kill a Mockingbird,
Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Death and
the Maiden. Her directing credits include The Cemetery Club, Sylvia, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around
Talking, Vital Signs, Love Letters, Wild
Dreams—Discovering Henry M. Flagler, and Arthur Miller’s After the Fall. Of Ms. Didion’s play, Anne says, “I feel
it has an extremely important and positive message to share: As Joan says, ‘Life changes in the
instant’…. I hope you take with you this
message: ‘do it now… don’t wait
…just go with the flow and enjoy life in the NOW!’”
