Vanessa Redgrave benefit revives ‘Magical Thinking’ role
Vanessa Redgrave will reprise her starring role from the 2007 Broadway play “The Year of Magical Thinking” at a performance on Monday to benefit programs run by United Nations charities.
The play is based on Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir chronicling the deaths of her daughter and husband. When Redgrave performs Monday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it will be the first time she has played the role since the death of her own daughter, actress Natasha Richardson, in March.
“The message of this play is so important to me that I want to make sure that it can be heard by as wide an audience as possible,” Redgrave said in a statement. “This is an experience we all go through, young and old alike. It would be wonderful to see the Cathedral filled with both those whose lives are fully ahead of them, as well as those who know fully what that road is like.”
