Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0822235641

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You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. A play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.


People, Places and Things

People, Places and Things

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1350519871

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"Macmillan doesn't shy away from difficult questions about addiction and recovery and, rightly, doesn't answer them ... this is a bold, timely and searching play" - Financial Times Emma was having the time of her life. Now she's in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn't with Emma, it's with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she's smart enough to know that there's no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up? People, Places & Things premiered at the National Theatre in 2015 before transferring to London's West End and St. Ann's Warehouse in New York. This edition is published to coincide with the return to the West End in June, 2024


Lungs

Lungs

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0822236141

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The world is getting hotter, there’s unrest overseas—the seas themselves aren’t very calm—and one couple is thinking about having a child. Lungs is a smart and funny drama that follows a couple through the surprising lifecycle of their relationship, as they grapple with questions of family and change, hope, betrayal, happenstance, and the terrible pain that you can only cause the people you love.


100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

Author: Susan Weinschenk

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2011-04-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0132658607

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We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. This book combines real science and research with practical examples to deliver a guide every designer needs. With it you’ll be able to design more intuitive and engaging work for print, websites, applications, and products that matches the way people think, work, and play. Learn to increase the effectiveness, conversion rates, and usability of your own design projects by finding the answers to questions such as: What grabs and holds attention on a page or screen? What makes memories stick? What is more important, peripheral or central vision? How can you predict the types of errors that people will make? What is the limit to someone’s social circle? How do you motivate people to continue on to (the next step? What line length for text is best? Are some fonts better than others? These are just a few of the questions that the book answers in its deep-dive exploration of what makes people tick.


Lichtenbergianism

Lichtenbergianism

Author: Dale Lyles

Publisher: Lichtenbergian Press

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780692965962

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Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy gives you nine Precepts, ways to restructure your thinking about how you create and why so that you can just get to work and create the work of your dreams.


Towards a Poetics of the Mental Health Play

Towards a Poetics of the Mental Health Play

Author: Anja Drautzburg

Publisher: Göttingen University Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 3863954599

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This study traces key developments in theatre’s engagement with mental health since the 1970s. It introduces and applies the concept of the ‘mental health play’ as accurate and timely in addressing the way mental distress and mental illness have been brought to the stage. The study argues that the theatre is a central calibrator for reflecting developments and tensions in, as well as attitudes towards, mental health care, and thus opens up a domain that still has stereotypes and myths attached to it. Theatre’s representations of mental distress inform and shape cultural production and vice versa. Mental health plays are central in encouraging and fostering conversations about mental health, and they thus intervene in ongoing debates. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this study contributes to and extends existing research in multiple fields, including theatre and science, performance studies, and the medical humanities.


Hunting Hope

Hunting Hope

Author: Nika Maples

Publisher: Worthy Inspired

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1617957895

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When you can't see any hope in a season of difficulty, hunt for it by holding onto God's character and letting Him develop your own.


Requiem in Rhyme Volume 2

Requiem in Rhyme Volume 2

Author: Dustin Edwards

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Published: 2022-08-17

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1662928998

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In a departure from the darkly emotional Volume 1, this work is slightly more upbeat and highlights the beauty of humanity. Moments of raw humanity are not absent, but scattered throughout the collection. As a whole, the spirit is much more light and inviting. Individual poems examine social interaction, personal introversion, political observation, and random thoughts from waking up at two in the morning. Something in this book will absolutely make you upset, cry, or laugh. Most importantly, something will absolutely make you think.


Duncan Macmillan: Plays One

Duncan Macmillan: Plays One

Author: Duncan Macmillan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1783193387

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This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.


Julie Hesmondhalgh: A Working Diary

Julie Hesmondhalgh: A Working Diary

Author: Julie Hesmondhalgh

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1350025704

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Actor Julie Hesmondhalgh's working diary begins in November 2016 at the end of a full and exciting year of theatre-making with her company, Take Back. The company is a northern-based collective creating immediate script-in-hand responses to social and political events (of which there were many in 2016). Her work with Take Back fell between filming the third series of Broadchurch for ITV and starring in the award-winning play Wit at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. She kicks off as she prepares to start rehearsals for Mike Leigh's epic film about the Peterloo Massacre of 1819; visits schools and colleges representing Arts Emergency - an organisation set up to promote opportunities for young working-class actors; and awaits news of a possible London transfer of Wit. The book takes in Hesmondhalgh's unique experiences of working in film, theatre, TV and radio drama, and through the ups and downs of life as a working actor and producer, while balancing family life. The events described throughout take place against the backdrop of the huge political change and upheaval as Britain votes in favour of Brexit and Donald Trump is elected as US president. Throughout, Julie Hesmondhalgh considers the impact and challenges of starting a brand new chapter of her career after 16 years in Coronation Street; growing older as a woman in an industry preoccupied by youth and appearance; working with a legend of British film making; running a company; being a parent; experiencing first-hand the huge changes and pressures in the creative industries and arts education; and the lesser-known aspects of an actor's life post-production and publicity. All the while, she attempts to pass on any knowledge or experiences she might have accrued to people starting out in the business in this fascinating year-long journal.