Every Brilliant Thing

One day, leaving school, a little girl learns that her mom has attempted suicide. She could no longer find anything worth living for. Our heroine then decides to draw up an inventory of all the brilliant things, those little nothings that, added together, give meaning to existence. From childhood water fights to the beginnings of love, the list grows along with her, making us witnesses to a life where the trivial is never far from the extraordinary. How to react after a hard blow, when all certainties slip away under our feet? How to deal with the sadness of a loved one? And if we tried – faced with adversity – to grasp the world in all its beauty and roughness? Translated from English, the play by Duncan Macmillan is an invitation to reconnect with the essential, through a shared moment. By declining to infinity the joy of being alive, it opens the possibility of resilience, where pure energy can spring from despair. With this show for all audiences, Selma Alaoui creates a bubble of gentleness and benevolence, where the boundaries between the audience and the stage merge. The list of Toutes les choses géniales grows, as funny as it is sensitive, as precise as it is universal, celebrating the complexity of feelings and human relationships. Through the breathtaking performance of Juliette Ban, this story becomes ours and it is the contours of our humanity that are engaged in it. In co-presentation with Pierre de Lune