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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.

In consideration of your fellow audience members’ comfort and enjoyment, we ask the following:

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.

Scent-free Facilities: Please arrive perfume/cologne-free and do not bring flowers into the lobby or theatre.

Children: WCT productions, unless they are identified as family friendly, are not suitable for children or babes in arms. For more information, please visit the FAQs on wctlive.ca.

Proud to Support Live Theatre!

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 Director

Announcing another spectacular line-up very soon!

Proudly supporting the arts in Kamloops

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

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.

We hope you enjoy,