The unique one-person play involves in the audience in a journey of discovery about finding the positive in dark times
Allison Spratt Pearce plays one of four narrators in CCAE Theatricals’ solo play “Every Brilliant Thing.” Since its launch in 2020, CCAE Theatricals has won multiple artistic awards and a loyal following of ticket-buyers who appreciate the company’s adventurous spirit.
Written by Duncan MacMillan and Johnny Donahoe, “Every Brilliant Thing” was born at an English fringe festival in 2013, which makes sense with its freewheeling, audience-interactive concept. The play is usually performed by one actor, but CCAE artistic director J. Scott Lapp has staged it with four different actors alternating performances: Steven Lone, Allison Spratt Pearce, DeAndre Simmons and Bethany Slomka. Each actor performs the same script but under his or her own name.
In the story, Allison is the daughter of a troubled mother whose debilitating depression has led to several suicide attempts — the first time when Allison was in grade school. In an effort to lift her mother’s spirits and keep her own demons and anxiety at bay, Allison begins obsessively assembling a list of “brilliant things” .
Spratt Pearce convincingly plays a character aging from childhood to early mid-life. She sings, she plays music, she’s funny, she’s heartbreaking and she’s a natural with a live audience.
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