"His ever-growing roster in the plus column is meant to guard against at least one giant minus: the gnawing depression he has felt since his mother's first attempt at suicide, when he was seven years old."
"Radcliffe has a wired underdog energy that represents stage celebrity at its most approachable. And that matters a great deal in Every Brilliant Thing, a huge amount of which is built around audience participation."
"Even more than the essentially lonely act of list-making, this enactment of community and public engagement is central to the messaging of Every Brilliant Thing."
Every Brilliant Thing follows a narrator who compiles a list of commonplace wonders to combat the depression stemming from his mother's suicide attempts beginning in childhood. The Broadway revival stars Daniel Radcliffe, whose approachable energy drives the production's central mechanism: extensive audience participation. Before the play begins, Radcliffe casts audience members in various roles, from significant characters like the father and lover to minor parts requiring single lines. This interactive structure embodies the play's core message about community engagement and public connection as counterforces to isolation and despair, suggesting that shared human experience provides meaning and resilience against mental health crises.
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Read at Time Out New York
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