CESEAR'S FORUM

Cleveland's smallest resident professional theatre company at Playhouse Square

Cleveland's smallest resident professional theatre company at Playhouse Square

Joan Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

Presented by Cesear’s Forum
Featuring Julia Kolibab

An adaptation of the award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.  THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING employs a distinct cadence of language that reflects disorientation; an abrupt changing of the rules by which you have lived your life.  The telling is deeply personal and gut-wrenching.

In this time of pandemic, the individual battle with conjecture, instinct and changing circumstances couldn’t be more relevant, giving the work about coping additional resonance.

Cesear’s Forum is dedicated to presenting unconventional, new or lesser known plays that explore theory and technique to reveal aspects of the social, political, economic and ideological properties of daily life. The company produces intermittently, on a project by project basis (unusual in Cleveland), currently, one play per year, rather than a traditional seasonal approach.

Brian Bowers, Julia Kolibab, Tricia Bestic, Dana Hart in Yasmina Reza’s LIFE x 3

Intimate, minimalist, professional and distinctly non-commercial, the company operates from a truly non-profit perspective.

"Sometimes words, by themselves or in recurrent patterns, will blaze up in fiery exchanges or subside in aching whispers; sometimes a grimace, a tear, the movement of a hand, or a break in speech will hint better than spoken language what passes show.”   --Marvin Rosenberg

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