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Every Brilliant Thing

By Duncan Macmillan
Series: Modern Plays
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At six years old, the narrator faces their mother's hospitalisation following a suicide attempt. To help her rediscover happiness, they begin compiling a list of everything brilliant in the world—from ice cream to kung fu movies. Leaving this list by her pillow, it soon takes on a life of its own. This poignant play explores depression and the lengths we go to support those we love.
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This moving and uplifting play is suitable for readers and theatre lovers who appreciate insightful explorations of mental health, family, and resilience. It resonates particularly with those interested in stories that balance comedy and tragedy with warmth and honesty.

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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 new play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.

Series: Modern Plays

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Every Brilliant Thing is celebrated for its blend of joy, humour, and emotional depth. Reviews praise it as a beautiful, heart-wrenching and very funny work that is simultaneously devastatingly sad and incredibly uplifting. It is regarded as a genuinely wonderful and life affirming play, with critics highlighting its perfect balance between sorrow and joy, making it impossible not to laugh and cry. The production is also noted as an extraordinary piece of inclusive, participative theatre that leaves audiences feeling elated.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350282087

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 194.0mm

Weight: 69g

Pages: 64

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Arts & Culture Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Duncan Macmillan Education & Reference Happiness & Mental Health Non-Fiction Series: Modern Plays Young Adult

About the Author

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.

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