Every Brilliant Thing

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 Cream2. Kung Fu Movies3. Burning Things4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose5. Construction cranes6. MeYou 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. A new play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.