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You’re seven years old.
Mum’s in hospital.
Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’.
She finds it hard to be happy.
You start a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world.
Everything worth living for.
You leave it on her pillow.
You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling.
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Duncan Macmillan
Duncan Macmillan's other plays include: Every Brilliant Thing (Paines Plough/Pentabus/Barrow Street New York), Lungs (Studio Theatre Washington DC/Paines Plough), 1984 (with Robert Icke, Headlong/Almeida/West End), 2071 (with Chris Rapley, Royal Court Theatre/Hamburg Schauspielhaus), The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival/Schaubühne Berlin), Wunschloses Unglück (Burgtheater Vienna), Reise durch die Nacht (Schauspielhaus Köln/Theatertreffen/Festival d'Avignon), Monster (Royal Exchange Manchester).
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I saw this play in 2019 and was blown away by the audience interaction and the blend of comedy and drama. I loved being able to read the stage directions and examples of what the original actor did. During this strange quarantine it was good to read a collection of random beautiful things. I’ll revisit this one again.