{"id":19893,"date":"2015-02-19T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=19893"},"modified":"2015-02-19T03:28:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:28:26","slug":"joan-didions-powerful-memoir-of-love-and-loss-the-year-of-magical-thinking-at-the-roxy-regional-theatres-theotherspace-february-23rd-march-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/02\/19\/joan-didions-powerful-memoir-of-love-and-loss-the-year-of-magical-thinking-at-the-roxy-regional-theatres-theotherspace-february-23rd-march-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Didion&#8217;s Powerful Memoir of Love and Loss, &#8220;The Year of Magical Thinking&#8221;, at the Roxy Regional Theatre&#8217;s theotherspace, February 23rd &#8211; March 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64060\" title=\"Roxy Regional Theatre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Roxy-Regional-Theatre-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Roxy Regional Theatre\" width=\"116\" height=\"142\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.&#8221; Those were the first words written by author Joan Didion after the sudden death of her husband of nearly four decades.<\/p>\n<p>Didion&#8217;s powerful memoir of love and loss, &#8220;The Year of Magical Thinking&#8221;, will unfold upon the stage of the Roxy Regional Theatre&#8217;s theotherspace for four evenings, February 23rd &#8211; March 3rd.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_301184\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-Year-of-Magical-Thinking.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301184\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301184\" title=\"&quot;The Year of Magical Thinking&quot; plays at the Roxy Regional Theatre, February 23rd - March 3rd.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-Year-of-Magical-Thinking-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Year of Magical Thinking&quot; plays at the Roxy Regional Theatre, February 23rd - March 3rd.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-301184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Year of Magical Thinking&#8221; plays at the Roxy Regional Theatre, February 23rd &#8211; March 3rd.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Following in the footsteps of Vanessa Redgrave, who appeared in the Broadway production, Leslie Greene stars in this stunning and powerful one-woman play adapted from Joan Didion&#8217;s award-winning, bestselling memoir.<\/p>\n<p>Recounting the fallout from the sudden death of the author&#8217;s husband, novelist John Gregory Dunne, shortly before the couple&#8217;s 40th wedding anniversary, through the subsequent death of the couple&#8217;s daughter, &#8220;The Year of Magical Thinking&#8221; follows Didion&#8217;s inspiring journey from crippling grief to ultimate acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Due to language and content, &#8220;The Year of Magical Thinking&#8221; is recommended for mature audiences. This production is made possible in part through the generous support of Jill Eichhorn &amp; Barry Kitterman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Year of Magical Thinking&#8221; is presented in theotherspace, the 50-seat black-box theatre located upstairs at the Roxy, and plays at 7:00pm on February 23rd and 24th and March 2nd and 3rd. Tickets are $15.00 and may be purchased online at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roxyregionaltheatre.org\" >www.roxyregionaltheatre.org<\/a> , by phone at 931.645.7699, or at the theatre during regular box office hours (9:00am to 2:00pm, Monday through Friday, and one hour prior to curtain).<\/p>\n<p>The Roxy Regional Theatre is located at 100 Franklin Street in Clarksville, TN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; &#8220;Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.&#8221; Those were the first words written by author Joan Didion after the sudden death of her husband of nearly four decades. Didion&#8217;s powerful memoir of love and loss, &#8220;The Year of Magical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2018,825,1579,7124,6803,73,25187,12224],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5aR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19894,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions\/19894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}