By Duncan Macmillan
With Jonny Donahoe
Directed by Odile Nelson
featuring Jane Gaudet and Michael Oliphant
Every Brilliant Thing is a delightful one-person show about depression. It’s also about love and the many amazing things that can, despite it all, make life worth living.
Each night, the play’s narrator welcomes audience members to take an active role in the retelling of how they and their family struggled with their mother’s chronic depression. An interactive monologue that uses humour and community to engage us in a hopeful conversation about mental health.
Every Brilliant Thing has enjoyed critical acclaim around the world and sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Every Brilliant Thing is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
This play’s subject matter deals with mental health, chronic depression and suicide. If you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts or having a mental health crisis, help is available to you. Contact the Canadian Mental Health Association Yukon’s Reach Out Support Line everyday from 2pm til 10pm at 1-844-533-3030 or call 1-867-668-6429 for drop-in or regular counselling sessions and visit https://yukon.cmha.ca for all services and programs available. Or contact Crisis Service Canada (available 24/7/365) at 1-833-456-4566. You can also contact Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services: 867-456-3838.