Every Brilliant Thing is an interactive play where the audience participates in helping the actress to tell the story. Your class can sit on the stage!
THIS PRODUCTION WILL BE SEATING 24 LUCKY PEOPLE ON-STAGE.
Throughout the play, the actress will travel on and off the stage enabling the entire audience to participate in helping her tell the story. These 24 people seated on-stage will sit in comfortable chairs and be offered a delightfully intimate experience of the show.
or Call 207-782-2211
THIS PRODUCTION WILL BE SEATING 24 LUCKY PEOPLE ON-STAGE.
Throughout the play, the actress will travel on and off the stage enabling the entire audience to participate in helping her tell the story. These 24 people seated on-stage will sit in comfortable chairs and be offered a delightfully intimate experience of the show.
Every Brilliant Thing is an interactive play where the audience participates in helping the actress to tell the story. Your class can sit on the stage!
or Call 207-782-2211
Every Brilliant Thing
by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Give your students one of the most powerful and unique experiences they will ever have in a theatre!
This critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit is a funny, moving and unforgettable story told with the help of the audience in the most surprising, delightful and non-intimidating interactive way. If you have ever written a “gratitude list” you must see this play.
When a woman goes into the hospital because she finds it “hard to be happy”, her 7-year-old daughter starts writing her a list of all the brilliant things in life worth living for. No. 1: “Ice cream”, No. 25: “Wearing a cape”, No. 317: “The even numbered Star Trek films”. As the girl grows older, her list grows longer, reminding her of all the large and small miracles in her own life.
THIS PRODUCTION WILL BE SEATING 24 LUCKY PEOPLE ON THE STAGE
Every Brilliant Thing is an interactive play where the audience participates in helping the actress to tell the story. Your class can sit on the stage!
Before the show begins, the actress will identify and chat with multiple audience members giving then slips of paper with “brilliant things” to read aloud when she calls their corresponding number. Other audience members may also be asked to interact within the context of the story with strong guidance from the actress.
Participation will be sought from audience members sitting both on the stage and in the traditional theatre seats. The powerful impact this play makes is created by the true community that is built to tell the story.
Content Advisory:
This play addresses how a young child was influenced by the mental health challenges of their mother and how this later played out in their own life. Although this play mentions depression and suicide, it also focuses on the ultimate and uplifting healing path the child needed to take to unravel the mystery and mastery of their own happiness as an adult.
Recommended for ages 13+
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan
directed by Laura Kepley
starring Tarah Flanagan
Photo by Roger Mastroianni (Cleveland Playhouse, 2019)
Performance Dates
Tuesday, Jan 28 at 9:30 am
Wednesday, Jan 29 at 9:30 am
Run Time: 90 minutes with no intermission, allow additional 15 minutes for optional post-show discussion.
Ticket Prices
All Student Matinee Tickets are $7 each
Complimentary tickets available for Students in need.
or Call 207-782-2211
Sponsors
Thank You to Our Partners
Creative Team & Cast
Creative Team
Director – Laura Keply
Stage Manager – Adam P. Blais*
Lighting Design – Michael Reidy
Sound Design – Nicholas Drashner
*members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States
Cast
Tara Flanagan*
*member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
About the Playwrights
Duncan Macmillan
Plays include: PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS (2015-2017, National Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre, West End); 1984, adapted from George Orwell (2013-2017, Headlong/Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, West End, Broadway, international tours, co-adapted/co-directed with Rob Icke); EVERY BRILLIANT THING (2013-2017, Paines Plough/Pentabus Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, UK and international tours, HBO); CITY OF GLASS, adapted from Paul Auster (2017, 59 Productions, HOME, and Lyric Hammersmith); 2071, co-written with Chris Rapley (2014-2015, The Royal Court/Hamburg Schauspielhaus); THE FORBIDDEN ZONE (2014-2016, Salzburg Festival and Schaubühne Berlin); WUNSCHLOSES UNGLÜCK, adapted from Peter Handke (2014, Burgtheater Vienna); REISE DURCH DIE NACHT, adapted from Friederike Mayröcker (2012-2014, Schauspiel Köln, Festival d’Avignon, Theatertreffen); LUNGS (2011-2016, Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres/Studio Theatre, Washington, DC); and MONSTER (2006, Royal Exchange Theatre).
Jonny Donahoe
The co-creator and original performer of the acclaimed worldwide smash Every Brilliant Thing, he created the show alongside his friend Duncan Macmillan, performed the show over 400 times across four continents. The show and his performance at Barrow Street Theatre in New York was made into a film for HBO.
His comedy act Jonny and the Baptists (alongside his other friend Paddy Gervers) tour regularly throughout Britain and the rest of the world. Blending comic songs, satirical stand-up and traditional theatre-making, they make funny shows about serious things like wealth inequality, the climate change crisis, and the rise of nationalism and populism.
Thirty Christmases, which opened at The Old Fire Station in Oxford, and then transferred the following year off-West End to the New Diorama, and starred himself and his third friend Rachel Parris. He is currently adapting this play for TV.
Every Brilliant Thing
by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Give your students one of the most powerful and unique experiences they will ever have in a theatre!
This critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit is a funny, moving and unforgettable story told with the help of the audience in the most surprising, delightful and non-intimidating interactive way. If you have ever written a “gratitude list” you must see this play.
When a woman goes into the hospital because she finds it “hard to be happy”, her 6-year-old daughter starts writing her a list of all the brilliant things in life worth living for. No. 1: “Ice cream”, No. 25: “Wearing a cape”, No. 317: “The even numbered Star Trek films”. As the girl grows older, her list grows longer, reminding her of all the large and small miracles in her own life.
THIS PRODUCTION WILL BE SEATING 24 LUCKY PEOPLE ON THE STAGE
Every Brilliant Thing is an interactive play where the audience participates in helping the actress to tell the story. Your class can sit on the stage!
Before the show begins, the actress will identify and chat with multiple audience members giving then slips of paper with “brilliant things” to read aloud when she calls their corresponding number. Other audience members may also be asked to interact within the context of the story with strong guidance from the actress.
Participation will be sought from audience members sitting both on the stage and in the traditional theatre seats. The powerful impact this play makes is created by the true community that is built to tell the story.
Content Advisory:
This play addresses how a young child was influenced by the mental health challenges of their mother and how this later played out in their own life. Although this play mentions depression and suicide, it also focuses on the ultimate and uplifting healing path the child needed to take to unravel the mystery and mastery of their own happiness as an adult.
Recommended for ages 13+
Performance Dates
Tuesday, Jan 28 at 9:30 am
Wednesday, Jan 29 at 9:30 am
Run Time: 90 minutes with no intermission, allow additional 15 minutes for optional post-show discussion.
Ticket Prices
All Student Matinee Tickets are $7 each
Complimentary tickets available for Students in need.
or Call 207-782-2211
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan
directed by Laura Kepley
starring Tarah Flanagan
Photo by Roger Mastroianni (Cleveland Playhouse, 2019)
Creative Team & Cast
Creative Team
Director – Laura Keply
Stage Manager – Adam P. Blais*
Lighting Design – Michael Reidy
Sound Design – Nicholas Drashner
*members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States
Cast
Tara Flanagan*
*member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
About the Playwrights
Duncan Macmillan
Plays include: PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS (2015-2017, National Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre, West End); 1984, adapted from George Orwell (2013-2017, Headlong/Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, West End, Broadway, international tours, co-adapted/co-directed with Rob Icke); EVERY BRILLIANT THING (2013-2017, Paines Plough/Pentabus Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, UK and international tours, HBO); CITY OF GLASS, adapted from Paul Auster (2017, 59 Productions, HOME, and Lyric Hammersmith); 2071, co-written with Chris Rapley (2014-2015, The Royal Court/Hamburg Schauspielhaus); THE FORBIDDEN ZONE (2014-2016, Salzburg Festival and Schaubühne Berlin); WUNSCHLOSES UNGLÜCK, adapted from Peter Handke (2014, Burgtheater Vienna); REISE DURCH DIE NACHT, adapted from Friederike Mayröcker (2012-2014, Schauspiel Köln, Festival d’Avignon, Theatertreffen); LUNGS (2011-2016, Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres/Studio Theatre, Washington, DC); and MONSTER (2006, Royal Exchange Theatre).
Jonny Donahoe
The co-creator and original performer of the acclaimed worldwide smash Every Brilliant Thing, he created the show alongside his friend Duncan Macmillan, performed the show over 400 times across four continents. The show and his performance at Barrow Street Theatre in New York was made into a film for HBO.
His comedy act Jonny and the Baptists (alongside his other friend Paddy Gervers) tour regularly throughout Britain and the rest of the world. Blending comic songs, satirical stand-up and traditional theatre-making, they make funny shows about serious things like wealth inequality, the climate change crisis, and the rise of nationalism and populism.
Thirty Christmases, which opened at The Old Fire Station in Oxford, and then transferred the following year off-West End to the New Diorama, and starred himself and his third friend Rachel Parris. He is currently adapting this play for TV.
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Thank You to Our Partners
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