If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once feeling crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.
Youre seven years old. Mums in hospital. Dad says shes done something stupid. She finds it hard to be happy. You start a list of everything thats brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. You leave it on her pillow. You know shes read it because shes corrected your spelling.
A child attempts to ease their mothers depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world. Through adulthood, as the list grows, they learn the deep significance it has on their own life.
From Olivier Award-nominated writer Duncan Macmillan (People, Places and Things), Every Brilliant Thing is a comedy about the lengths we will go for those we love.
This edition was published to coincide with the long-awaited Broadway premiere at the Hudson Theatre with Tony Award winner Daniel Radcliffe.
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Rich with theatrical innovation, it is a truly brilliant thing. I wrote this with tears in my eyes * Times * One of the funniest plays youll ever see about depression and possibly one of the funniest plays youll ever see, full stop * Guardian * Charmed the socks off my body. It's going to make you love your fellow man. * NYT Critic's Pick * Shatters the format. It is a true breath of fresh air. * Variety *
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From Olivier Award nominated writer Duncan Macmillan, Every Brilliant Thing is a comedy about the lengths we will go for those we love.
Duncan Macmillan is an award-winning writer and director. Plays include: Lungs (Paines Plough/Sheffield Crucible and Studio Theatre Washington D.C.), Platform (Old Vic Tunnels), Monster (Royal Exchange/Manchester International Festival), The Most Humane Way to Kill A Lobster (Theatre 503), I Wish To Apologise For My Part In The Apocalypse, So Say All of Us and Family Tree (all BBC Radio 4). Formerly Writer-in-Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal Exchange, he has completed attachments at the National Theatre and the Royal Court/BBC, is a member of the Old Vic New Voices Company and a fellow of the TS Eliot UK/US Exchange. He is the winner of two Bruntwood Playwriting Awards, the Old Vic Big Ambition Award, a Pearson Residency Award, 'The 50' Bursary, and has been nominated in the Best New Play category of the TMA and MEN Awards.
