Slog - Comments on I'm Holding My Breath... http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath ...until I hear how Ms. Didion's play—which is not exactly an adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking but more an extension of it—fares on its first preview on Broadway. (If you are anywhere near New York tomorrow and can afford the $100 tickets, please purchase one here, attend the show, and tell me, in detail, what it was like.) You can read Didion the writer on Didion the playwright here. I have been asked if I do not find it strange that Vanessa Redgrave is playing me. I explain: Vanessa Redgrave is not playing me, Vanessa Redgrave is playing... Copyright 2008 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:15:22 -0800 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:27:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by andy niable I too seethe with envy at anyone who gets to see this show at opening. I'd saw off my right arm for a ticket. I've read the book twice, shortly after my father died, and was enormously moved by Didion's words. The idea of Redgrave putting them on stage is electric with possibilties.

]]> andy niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c657672 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c657672 Arts Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:23:47 -0800 Comment by defman23 Wow. I may have to go to NYC this summer after all...

For anyone who has not read it, this book is an incredible experience. A book about dealing with death has never been so full of vitality.

Anyone else may have made me cringe, but Vanessa Redgrave is one of few who could even come close to bringing this complex work to life...

I know this all sounds a little precious, but it's very exciting!

]]> defman23 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c657963 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c657963 Arts Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:59:04 -0800 Comment by Sylvie I read this book about a month and a half after my mom passed away, under very similar circumstances to Ms. Didion's late husband. I spent the weekend crying and reading, going through her mourning process as I began mine. To see this on stage would be haunting and powerful. If I could afford a trip to NYC, I would definately see it! It is encouraging to see such a taboo subject brought out into the open... no one before seemed to want to touch the idea of grief in such an honest, realistic light.

]]> Sylvie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c658092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c658092 Arts Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:54:36 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Vanessa Redgrave is an actress and a damn fine one at that. One would assume that she would be able to become as much like Joan Didion as possible, if that's what the director and playwright expect of her. So, whatever.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c658294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/im_holding_my_breath#c658294 Arts Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:27:01 -0800