Every Brilliant Thing
By Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe
Directed by Pete Rydberg
Presented by Grey Area Productions
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own.
Every Brilliant Thing is a play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love. An immersive storytelling experience that blends comedy, improv, and audience interaction to tell the story of a boy growing up in the shadow of mental illness, and learning to grapple with his own adult experiences with love, loss and depression. Every Brilliant Thing provides a life-affirming jolt of humanism, reminding us that hope comes from the miracles of life’s little things.
CAST
Mathew Herman - and - Alexandria Adeline Chapes
Performances
September *11-13 & 18-20 @ 7:30 PM
September 14 & 21 @ 2:00 PM
*Free donation-based performance (Thursday, Sept 11)
(House doors open 1h prior, theater doors open half hour prior)
At Pump House Regional Arts Center
Tickets
General Admission - $30
Pump House Member - $25
Student/Military - $15
(+tax & fees added at checkout)
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