Out of the Margins

Performed in-the-round by the incredible Luke Hewitt, Every Brilliant Thing is an hour of life affirming humour. This multiple award-winning international sensation throws audience members into the story as fathers, lovers, friends and allies following one person’s life in the shadow of mental illness. 

Duncan Macmillan’s internationally acclaimed play Every Brilliant Thing can here be newly experienced through Macmillan’s moving and intimate annotations about craft, audience responses and the history of the production. With references from Thom Yorke to Jarvis Cocker, as well as notes on productions in Australia, the Philippines and Greece, Duncan offers a truly unique map of global audience responses to the show, the team’s creative choices and what originally compelled him to write it. Some very special pages reveal the real romantic connections that came from the show’s productions, Jonny’s ‘love-bomb’ techniques for getting the audience onside, and the moments of which Macmillan is most proud.