when: 20 - 25 August 2024 | venue: ACT Hub | Australian Capital Theatre Hub | cost: See event for details | address: 14 Spinifex Street Kingston 2604 | website: https://acthub.com.au | tickets: https://www.acthub.com.au/production/every-brilliant-thing///?q=eyJ0eXBlIjoiYm9va2luZyIsImRlc3RpbmF0aW9uIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWN0aH
published: 20 Aug 2024, 5 min read
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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 to make her a list of every brilliant thing in the world.
1. Ice cream.
2. Water fights.
3. Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV.
4. The colour yellow.
Decades pass, the list grows, and what started as a naïve way of getting through the day eventually becomes a profound truth - that the sublime can be found in the everyday.
26. Peeing in the sea and nobody knows.
996. Really good oranges.
2390. People who can't sing but either don't know or don't care.
'Every Brilliant Thing' is a transcendent and tender play for a solo performer, who tells their story with the help of people in the audience (in a totally non-scary way!). It is a pure celebration of life, that reminds everyone to pay attention to life's smallest joys - and to each other.
Written by Duncan Macmillan.
Directed by Joel Horwood.
Performed by Jarrad West.
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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 to make her a list of every brilliant thing in the world.
1. Ice cream.
2. Water fights.
3. Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV.
4. The colour yellow.
Decades pass, the list grows, and what started as a naïve way of getting through the day eventually becomes a profound truth - that the sublime can be found in the everyday.
26. Peeing in the sea and nobody knows.
996. Really good oranges.
2390. People who can't sing but either don't know or don't care.
'Every Brilliant Thing' is a transcendent and tender play for a solo performer, who tells their story with the help of people in the audience (in a totally non-scary way!). It is a pure celebration of life, that reminds everyone to pay attention to life's smallest joys - and to each other.
Written by Duncan Macmillan.
Directed by Joel Horwood.
Performed by Jarrad West.
Go see Every Brilliant Thing 2024.
Every Brilliant Thing 2024 is on 20 - 25 August 2024. The opening hours are: See event website for details. Conveniently located in Kingston. Call 02 6210 8748 for details. Visit their website at https://acthub.com.au.
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