Despite our Frailties and Foibles … EVERY BRILLIANT THING Declares Life Can Triumph

Although the play’s framework is the young Storyteller’s idea of creating a list of brilliant things to lift his mother’s spirits, it is not the sole source of salvation for him. Sparks are useless without firewood, and we begin to see there is a milieu of love that keeps the flame burning: his father’s gruff dependability, the school psychologist’s sock puppet, a partner who cares even from afar.

It may not have worked for his mother. But for our Storyteller hero, that love is the most brilliant thing of all.