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His newest piece, The White Album is a multimedia performance that uses Joan Didion’s seminal essay to apply a uniquely inventive approach to the intersection between observation, storytelling, audience participation, choreography and architecture.
Joan Didion is one of America's most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays.
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.
Joan Didion’s seminal essay comes to life in an inventive new theatrical work When we can’t make sense of the world, we look to stories to help us. When we need to define the social state of.
Her essays originally appeared in our pages in a column that Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunn, took turns writing in 1976-77, appropriately titled “The Coast.” The White Album Ten essays in Didion’s second anthology, “The White Album” first appeared in our pages.
Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. In this now legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche, Didion searches for stories as the Sixties.
In the decades since The White Album was published, Didion has written many groundbreaking films, essays, and memoirs (The Year of Magical Thinking was adapted into a play in 2007).