Every Brilliant Thing
Author(s): Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Company: Theatre by the Lake
Running time: 1h 00min approx
Age recommendation: 14+
You’re seven 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 worth living for.
1. Ice cream
2. Water fights
3. Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV
And as you grow, so does the list.
324. Nina Simone’s voice
761. Deciding you’re not too old to climb trees
1007. The fact that sometimes there’s a perfect song to match how you’re feeling
