Every Brilliant Thing: Modern Plays

The play was the recipient of critical acclaim from UK publications upon its first performance in 2015

Duncan Macmillan is an award-winning writer and director. Plays include: Lungs (Paines Plough/Sheffield Crucible and Studio Theatre Washington D.C.), Platform (Old Vic Tunnels), Monster (Royal Exchange/Manchester International Festival), The Most Humane Way to Kill A Lobster (Theatre 503), I Wish To Apologise For My Part In The Apocalypse , So Say All of Us and Family Tree (all BBC Radio 4). Formerly Writer-in-Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal Exchange, he has completed attachments at the National Theatre and the Royal Court/BBC, is a member of the Old Vic New Voices Company and a fellow of the TS Eliot UK/US Exchange. He is the winner of two Bruntwood Playwriting Awards, the Old Vic Big Ambition Award, a Pearson Residency Award, 'The 50' Bursary, and has been nominated in the Best New Play category of the TMA and MEN Awards.

Filled to the brim with joy... beautiful, heart wrenching and very funny
Extraordinary piece of inclusive, participative theatre
Deeply personal. I defy anyone not to laugh and cry
Genuinely wonderful and life affirming. It is impossible not to love
It's the funniest play you're ever likely to see about depression, and also the most moving
Both devastatingly sad and incredibly uplifting
There are lines that flash out at you in their perception... Every Brilliant Thing deserves a place as a show that will raise a smile through any gloom. A lovely warm glow of a work
Heart-wrenching, hilarious... possibly one of the funniest plays you'll ever see, full stop
Funny, clever, and surprisingly uplifting
Dual interest in joy and sorrow... a perfect balance
Absurdly cherishable...fantastically likeable
A piece that demonstrates why life is worth living... you'll leave feeling elated
Immensely likeable...with great sensitivity behind the abundant laughs