Sommerspiele Eberndorf / "All the Beautiful Things"

What's it about?

All the Beautiful Things (Every Brilliant Thing) by Duncan Macmillan (with Jonny Donahoe) German translation by Corinna Brocher Stage performance rights represented by Rowohlt Verlag How does a child react to their mother's suicide attempt? You write her a list of all the beautiful things in the world: 1. Ice cream2. Water fights3. Being allowed to stay up later than usual and watch TV4. The color yellow You hope that your mother really reads the list (and doesn't just correct the spelling mistakes), that her depression stops and life goes on. It does. But not everything automatically gets better. Not now, not later, when you're an adult, in love and perhaps even thinking about having your own children. Again and again, a strange sadness lurks, there are crashes, embarrassing situations and injuries. Only the list has grown over the years and is approaching a million. "A life-affirming monologue about a deadly serious topic...