Daniel K. Isaac stars in 'Every Brilliant Thing,' a play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, at the Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, Geffen Playhouse’s new artistic director, discusses the “calling” of theater and his vision for the future of the Westside theater.The Englishness of the piece — evident in the use of ‘brilliant” in the title — was part of the work’s understated charm. Anxiety and grief found playful ways around the reserve of a culture that has difficulty addressing painful topics directly.
I wondered if Isaac might have benefited from modifying the script more assertively to fit his own performance. “Every Brilliant Thing” has enormous flexibility but the universal pattern it traces is made more vivid by character-centered specificity. Music, which plays such a crucial role in the family life of the protagonist, is seamlessly incorporated by sound designer Stephanie Lynn Yackovetsky. Ray Charles’s “Drown in My Own Tears,” a favorite of the narrator’s mother, captures the play’s somber exuberance.
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