There's sharp power in Joan Didion's memoir that takes the reader down a vortex of willed illusion, of mental illness as magical thinking and a means of coping with grief. That power is muted on stage, thanks to the subtle but evident lecturing tone embedded in Sarah Day's delivery. Nobody likes to be talked down to, not even when the speaker is coming from a place of undeniable authority. (read Catey Sullivan's ent…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:28PM on August 8, 2014