Everyone handles grief differently. For author Joan Didion, she wrote hers down. The Year of Magical Thinking is an intimate account of the year following Didion's husband's death, and the ongoing troubling health issues of her daughter. In the story, Didion's daughter is in the hospital, unconscious, when her father has a cardiac arrest and passes away. Yeah, it's pretty heavy stuff, but for anyone who has experienced loss, Didion offers a comfortingly analytical voice. She explains here that “magical thinking” is when people convince themselves that if they wish hard enough, or do everything just right, an inevitable act could be avoided. Didion's Pulitzer-nominated memoir about the strength of the human spirit was adapted for the stage in 2007—and now comes to the Laguna Playhouse to open the flood-gates for OC theater-goers.
Wednesdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Starts: Oct. 8. Continues through Nov. 2, 2014
