



DAWN PETTEN BRIAN LINDS
ESTELLE SHOOK
CHRISTINE LEROUX
Performer
Sound Designer & Performer
Director
Stage Manager
Approximately 75 minutes, no intermission
EVERY BRILLIANT THING was first produced by Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre, on 28 June 2013 at Ludlow Fringe Festival. The play had its North American premiere at Barrow Street Theatre, New York, on 6 December 2014, where it was presented by Barrow Street Theatre and Jean Doumanian Productions.
WCT is proud to tell our stories in the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory within the traditional lands of the Secwépemc Nation.
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The wearing of masks is currently optional. Please ask Front-of-House if you require or want a mask.
For Assistance and Accessibility:
Both the Pavilion and Sagebrush Theatres are wheelchair accessible and equipped with wheelchair-seating locations.
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Electronic Devices: Please turn off all cellular phones and watch alarms prior to the show. Due to copyright regulations, the use of cameras and other video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.
Late Arrival and Re-admission: If you arrive after a performance has begun or leave the auditorium during the performance, we will make every effort to seat you at an appropriate interval in the program. Please be advised that this may not be the seat you are ticketed for, depending on its location in the theatre.
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There’s an old joke in the theatre about three brain surgeons arguing over a complex procedure. Eventually one of them says “hey, let’s lighten up—this isn’t theatre.”
Maybe it’s because I come from a medical family, but I’ve always taken my career, and my profession, very seriously. I’ve never believed that theatre could be the cure of all ills, but I’ve certainly always hoped that we have a role that can, and should, go beyond popular entertainment.
In our “post-Covid” world, we’re seeing struggles with mental health all around us—addiction challenges on our streets, increased depression in our workplaces, and children struggling with online bullying and other forms of anxiety in their schools. I believe that theatre can, and does, play an important role in alleviating these challenges, both by offering diversion, and also in providing insight and provoking empathy for those experiencing difficulties. In the case of young people, it can offer them theatre education that provides confidence building experiences that can truly change their lives forever.
Every Brilliant Thing was born out of immense sadness, but its message is one of joy and positivity. The theme of our two Pavilion productions this season is embodied in two shows that demonstrate how love, humour, and resilience in the face of tragedy is the most uplifting experience of all.
You will have enjoyed many different experiences on WCT stages this year, and I hope that each one has transformed your life in some small way. That you have been able to walk a mile in someone else’s life, and that the experience has left you with a more curious, happy, interested, empathetic view of the world. And we can’t wait to do it all again next season.
Thanks for “going together” with us in 2022/23, and we can’t wait to share the buzz about next season with you soon.
Enjoy.
James MacDonald, Artistic DirectorAnnouncing another spectacular line-up very soon!
The original name for this play was “Sleeve Notes”. As in, the story of the making of a record. This early title suggests that the play was offered as a kind of object, something to hold onto as you experience it.
It is based on a simple idea: that a list of nice things could combat hardwired depression.
It assumes the form of one of our most ancient traditions: the storyteller.
And it holds onto, as a lifeline, one of our most ancient medicines: music, in this case, jazz–a genre renowned for its improvisational creativity.
I love this play for us now because who among us has not experienced a bout of depression in the last three years? Who among us doesn’t need reminding of what is brilliant and good all around us? Who among us has not needed some strong medicine for the soul?
Duncan Macmillan said he wrote this play to communicate to people “you are not alone, you are not weird, you will get through it, and you’ve just got to hold on.”
Every Brilliant Thing offers us something real we can hold onto. Each piece of paper is an exercise of imagination, an act of hope.
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DUNCAN MACMILLAN Plays include: People, Places and Things (2015–2017, National Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre, West End); 1984, adapted from George Orwell (2013–2017, Headlong/Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, West End, Broadway, international tours, co-adapted/co-directed with Rob Icke); Every Brilliant Thing (2013–2017, Paines Plough/ Pentabus Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, UK and international tours, HBO); City of Glass, adapted from Paul Auster (2017, 59 Productions, HOME, and Lyric Hammersmith); 2071, co-written with Chris Rapley (2014–2015, The Royal Court/Hamburg Schauspielhaus); The Forbidden Zone (2014–2016, Salzburg Festival and Schaubühne Berlin); Wunschloses Unglück, adapted from Peter Handke (2014, Burgtheater Vienna); Reise durch die Nacht, adapted from Friederike Mayröcker (2012–2014, Schauspiel Köln, Festival d’Avignon, Theatertreffen); Lungs (2011–2016, Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres/Studio Theatre, Washington, DC); and Monster (2006, Royal Exchange Theatre).
JONNY DONAHOE Jonny Donahoe is a Drama Desk award nominated actor; a Lucille Lortel award nominated writer; and a Chortle award nominated comedian. The co-creator and original performer of the acclaimed worldwide smash Every Brilliant Thing, he created the show alongside his friend Duncan Macmillan, performed the show over 400 times across four continents. The show and his performance at Barrow Street Theatre in New York was made into a film for HBO. His comedy act Jonny and the Baptists (alongside his other friend Paddy Gervers) tour regularly throughout Britain and the rest of the world. Blending comic songs, satirical stand-up, and traditional theatre-making, they make funny shows about serious things like wealth inequality, the climate change crisis, and the rise of nationalism and populism. His stage plays include Thirty Christmases, which opened at The Old Fire Station in Oxford, and then transferred the following year off-West End to the New Diorama, and starred himself and his third friend Rachel Parris. He has made a podcast series with his real-life partner, Josie Long, about having a baby by mistake called Josie And Jonny Are Having A Baby With You; and another with fellow Baptist Paddy Gervers about mental health and friendship called Making Paddy Happy.
At WCT: Debut
Elsewhere: Dawn is an award-winning actor based on the territories of the Coast Salish People, who has performed in theatres across the country. She is so happy to be at last revisiting the role that she first performed at the Belfry Theatre. Most recently Dawn acted in the world premiere of The Cull at the Arts Club Theatre, and trod the boards in her 7th season of the East Van Panto with Theatre Replacement, this time as Ursula in The Little Mermaid. Other favourite theatre shows have been with Electric Company Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Touchstone Theatre, and Caravan Farm Theatre (where she will return this summer). On Dawn’s list of Brilliant Things: her 6-year-old daughter dancing, her mother’s steadfast love, family card games, somersaulting in the ocean, a brother like no other, a best friend since grade 3, and, after the long Covid interruption, FINALLY arriving in the same room with all of you in this “wholly communion” of theatre.
At WCT: Sound: No Exit, The Miracle Worker. Acting: Harvest, Driving Miss Daisy, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Man Who Shot Chance
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Elsewhere: Brian’s original sound/performance play Reverberations was presented at The Belfry Theatre’s Spark Festival (2017) and at Presentation House (2019). Sound design credits include: The Full Light of Day and No Exit for The Electric Company in which he was nominated for a San Francisco Bay Area Critics Award; Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave (National Arts Centre); Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach); Sweeney Todd (Vancouver Opera); A Christmas Story (Chemainus Theatre); Mustard, The Audience, August: Osage County, and The History Boys (Arts Club Theatre); Same Old, Same Old, The Valley (Belfry Theatre); Of Mice and Men, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Blue Bridge Theatre).
Saturday, May 27, 2023 7:30 p.m.
Students Under 19 Years Free Tickets available at the door and at www.chambermusiciansofkamloops.org for both live and on-line viewing
Angus Armstrong, Wade Dorsey, Bob Rogers and Gordon Waters This concert will also be livestreamed and can be viewed on-line until May 13, 2023BCLC is proud to support Western Canada Theatre’s Grease
Last year, Western Canada Theatre Society received a Community Gaming Grant for more than $88,500 from the Province of B.C.
At WCT: Debut
Elsewhere: Artistic Director of Caravan Farm Theatre, Estelle has produced, developed, and directed over 35 outdoor productions for the company, and has devoted her professional career to advancing the art form of large scale, site specific theatre. Other projects include: Every Brilliant Thing, with the Belfry Theatre; associate directing the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Louis Riel with Peter Hinton; directing the Canadian Stage premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s Sunday in Sodom, which garnered six Dora nominations and won the Dora award for Outstanding Production. Also, for Canadian Stage, she has directed Julius Caesar and The Winter’s Tale, and toured Stan Douglas’s Helen Lawrence to Brooklyn and Antwerp. Estelle lives with her daughter in the North Okanagan, in the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan and Secwépemc Nations.
At WCT: Serving Elizabeth, Meet My Sister, A Christmas Carol, The Best Brothers, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, Made in Italy.
Elsewhere: Stage Manager for Made in Italy (Theatre Aquarius/Arts Club Theatre Company); The New Canadian Kid (Green Thumb Theatre); The Best Brothers (Theatre Northwest); TH’OWXIYA: The Hungry Feast Dish, Raven Meets the Monkey King (Axis Theatre Company); Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (TIP). Assistant Stage Manager for Mamma Mia! (The Globe Theatre). Christine is also Western Canada Theatre’s Producer and is very excited to be back Stage Managing this beautiful show. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues for helping make this possible. All my love to Leon and Charlie. Enjoy the show!
Western Canada Theatre gratefully acknowledges the following government agencies, corporations, foundations, and individuals for their generous contributions through sponsorships and/or charitable donations. We thank everyone who plays their important part in helping us to bring the highest quality of work to the broadest possible audience.
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JAMES MacDONALD Artistic Director
LESLIE BILES Executive Director
ADMINISTRATION
TERRI RUNNALLS Education & Outreach Director
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PRODUCTION
CHRISTINE LEROUX Producer
BILL CHABASSOL Director of Production
LIAM BEFURT Venue Technical Director, Sagebrush Theatre
BRITTNEY MARTENS Head of Properties
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EMILY THIBERT Wardrobe Assistant
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VENUE SERVICES
MICHELLE CHABASSOL Manager of Ticketing & Patron Services
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