Every brilliant thing

An uplifting play about depression with Ellenor Lindgren. To save her suicidal mother, a girl makes a list of everything that makes life worth living - and saves herself in the process!

A seven-year-old girl learns that her mother is in hospital because she no longer wants to live.
To save her mother, the girl makes a list of everything worth living for:
1. ice cream.
2. Water fights.
3. striped things.
4. kung fu movies.
5. roller coasters...

The list keeps growing. And so does the girl.
We follow her from 1987 to today, from child to adult, through school, love, work - and new things are added to the list: Dancing alone, Coffee, Thinking up a declaration of love. As the list fills up with positive things, she begins to realize the importance of the list in her own life.
Maybe the person who is really saved by the list is herself?

Every Brilliant Thing is the original title of the play, which in the hands of Västerbottensteatern becomes ALLT SOM ÄR VÄRT.
It is an uplifting play about depression that, with warmth, humor and hits from 1987 to today, tackles difficult topics in a disarming, touching and funny way. And with this surprising monologue, the audience and the actor create the performance together.
The play is directed by Västerbottensteatern's new artistic director Johanna Salander and on stage we see Ellenor Lindgren.