the year of Magical Thinking...

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From Terlingua City Limits

the year of
MAGICAL THINKING
a play by
JOAN DIDION
based on her memoir
STARRING SUMMER WILLIAMS
a last minute low budget production
January 31 - February 3
La Kiva, 8 p.m.
Sunday Matinee 2 p.m.
Thursday, February 7
Terlingua Ranch Lodge
Meeting Room, 7 p.m.
THE TRIALS OF JOAN

SOUTH BREWSTER COUNTY — Joan Didion and her husband, John Dunne, have
two of the greatest names in modern American literature. They have
written novels, plays, screenplays, news articles, all about other
people. In Didion's tragic memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, she
struggles to take the journalist's analytic view of herself in crisis
while the pain is still fresh.

The magical thinking of the title was her way of dealing with
profound grief. She has said that she must write about something to
know what she thinks about it. Now we know too.

Beginning January 31 and continuing through February 3, Last
Minute Low Budget Productions will present the play that grew out of
that book. It was first performed at the Booth Theater on Broadway
last March with Vanessa Redgrave as Didion. Summer Williams, one of
Big Bend's most accomplished actresses, will give the solo
performance Thursday through Sunday. Evening performances will be at
8 p.m. and the Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. at La Kiva on Highway 170
between Study Butte and Terlingua.

On Tuesday, February 5, the show will move to the San Vicente
School in Big Bend National Park. That one-night show will benefit
Last Minute Low Budget Productions' annual fund benefiting Big Bend
High School students. Curtain time at the school gymnasium is at 7
p.m.

Didion hails from the stratosphere of California society and
lived much of her life in and around Los Angeles. Joan and John's
daughter, Quintana, was born in Santa Monica and taken home to their
beach-side home in Malibu. Their life consisted of a frenetic if
cosseted whirl of trips to New York, Hawaii, Paris, and beyond, where
they worked on books and movies. Joan's story begins, however, at
their Manhattan apartment where, as she says, her life changed in an
instant, and went on changing for many months thereafter.

Directing the play will be Tom Ramsay, assisted by Sarah
Bourbon as producer. It is Tom's first play in Big Bend, though his
experience with theater is long, also beginning in California

Contact Sarah Bourbon, 432-371-2202

Last Minute Low Budget Productions
A Community Non-Profit Theater
P.O. Box 508
Terlingua, TX 79852
432-371-2202