Every Brilliant Thing wows Edinburgh Fringe

One-man play about child with depressed mother steers clear of mawkishness and delights critics

Every Brilliant Thing

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Every Brilliant Thing is one of two works by playwright Duncan Macmillan at the Edinburgh Fringe, put on by new-writing theatre company Paines Plough in a ‘flatpack' pop-up theatre in the courtyard of a former veterinary college.

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