Every Brilliant Thing

“You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy.

You start a list of everything brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for.

1. Ice Cream.
2. Roller Coasters.
3. Peeing in the lake and nobody knows.

You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling.”

Twenty years and thousands of things later, the list will take on a life of its own.

Be drawn into this astonishingly funny comedy about depression, gratitude, and the lengths we go to for those we love. An epic celebration of life’s joys in the midst of pain, based on true and untrue stories.

Theatre’s power to bring people together in loving respect is vividly alive in this play, undoing stigma around mental illness.