Every Brilliant Thing: A Life Examined

The Office of Student Involvement invites you to a special presentation by performers from the Utah Shakespeare Festival.  “Every Brilliant Thing: A Life Examined” is a one-person play that explores suicide and depression while reminding the audience of everything worth living for.  This play has been so well-received that it was made into a television adaptation for HBO.  Please join us for this unique opportunity to see this play outside of the state of Utah and experience a highly uplifting and positive moment when you realize every brilliant thing life is worth living for.

Dinner will be served for attendees

3 House Points Available (DO students only)

SYNOPSIS:  The Storyteller begins by telling a story of when, at seven-years old, and was taken to see his mother in the hospital after her first attempt to take her own life. Afterwards, The Storyteller begins a list. A list of everything brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. The story explores depression and hope, uncertainty and change, confusion and joy, heartbreak and anger, relationships and solitude, risk and resistance, guilt and forgiveness. Throughout, The Storyteller interacts with audience members to tell about life with his or her mother’s depression as a backdrop, including the effects it has on his or her life and relationships.