Event Info
- Language: English
- City / State: Maharashtra
- Directed By: Quasar Thakore Padamsee
- Produced By: Vivek Rao and Toral Shah, QTP
Every Brilliant thing
A tender play about love, life, family, mental health and all that makes life worthwhile
Dramatised innovatively through the story of a family-next-door, this is a tender play about love, life, family, and all that which makes life worthwhile, and delicately explores the complicated emotions that encompass mental health.
A tender play about love, life, family, mental health and all that makes life worthwhile.
He is seven years old. His mum’s in hospital. She finds it hard to be happy. He makes a list to cheer her up…
Dramatised innovatively through the story of a family-next-door, this is a tender play about love, life, family, and all that which makes life worthwhile, and delicately explores the complicated emotions that encompass mental health.
Ice cream / Pillow fights / Staying up past your bedtime and being taken to a movie / The colour yellow / Gully Cricket
What would you put on your list?
Staged in an in-the-round setting, this moving and intimate piece invites you to share the joy found in everyday objects. An uplifting play about love, life, family, mental health and a list of all the wonderful things in the world!
(Every Brilliant Thing was first produced by Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre on 28 June 2013 at Ludlow Fringe Festival.)
VIVEK MADAN
Performer
CAST
Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Writer
Q
Director
CREW
Arghya Lahiri
Light Designer
Varrunn Bangera
Sound Designer
Rachit Khetan
Stage Manager
Toral Shah
Creative Producer
Vivek Rao
Executive Producer
QTP
Producer
VIVEK MADAN
- Best Actor in a Lead Role (Male)
Written by award-winning playwright Duncan Macmillan (with Jonny Donahoe), this play tells a remarkably uplifting story about a young boy’s attempt to combat his mother’s depression with a list of all the wonderful things in the world worth living for.
More and more we are coming into contact with people who are struggling to adjust to life, deal with its struggles, and talk about their daily challenges. For the longest time, addressing mental health issues has been done in hushed tones, if at all. Seeking professional help has been associated with feelings of inferiority and a degree of shame. Every Brilliant Thing is a delicate exploration of tender and complex relationships which have been complicated by issues at hand.
The show is staged ‘in-the-round’ and invites the audience to help tell this story of a typical family-next-door. My biggest fascination with theatre is directing a piece of work that is innately live and cannot be created to be consumed on a hand-held device or a 180-degree Imax screen. Every Brilliant Thing is everything that is good about the theatre. It’s community, it’s sharing, it's honest, it’s joyful. It has dramatic moments that are heightened and simple things that hurt. It’s very human. What I love about this play is that it is participative in nature. The audience is constantly involved in what is going to happen; they almost will the show forward!