Every Brilliant Thing

It is the story, moving and funny, of a little boy whose mother does something very silly. He is 7 years old, the little guy, he is not very big. What could he do to help heal mom? At the hospital where he visits her comes an amazing idea: a list! Draw up the list of all the great things that will come to his mind: ice creams, the color yellow, water fights, laughing so hard that milk comes out of the nose… He says to himself: if I put it on mom’s pillow, if she reads it, the miracle will necessarily happen, she will regain a taste for life. Through the evolution of this inventory, which he will never stop expanding, with your help if you wish, the narrator tells the unpredictable paths his life has taken. “After all, as Toots Thielemans said, we only know how to do nothing but improvise”. In a very British alloy of apparent simplicity and great subtlety of writing, the play mobilizes us, without mawkishness and with pretty notes well acidulated on the unimaginable luck of being alive. A call to be enthusiastic, tonic, and unclassifiable! We loved it! And you? _______ By: Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe / Translation: Ronan Mancec / Adaptation: François-Michel van der Rest and Françoise Walot / Director: Françoise Walot / With: François-Michel van der Rest _______ PRODUCTION LE GROUPE®, THÉÂTRE DE LIÈGE, DC&J CRÉATION WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE TAX SHELTER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF BELGIUM AND INVER TAX SHELTER. WITH THE HELP OF THE WALLONIA-BRUSSELS FEDERATION / THEATER DEPARTMENT. The play is managed in French-speaking Europe by Marie Cécile Renauld, MCR Literary Agency in agreement with Casarotto Ramsay ltd.