Utah Shakespeare Festival has been traveling the state with a message they hope can make a difference with youth and Vernal is their next stop. The play, ‘Every Brilliant Thing’, is about a young man who learns at a young age of his mother’s attempted suicide and how, afterwards, he begins to keep a list of everything brilliant about the world and everything worth living for. The Utah Shakespeare Festival is presenting the play for free to the public in every school district in the state and Vernal’s Monday performance will be their last stop in northeastern Utah having previously performed at Terra Academy, Manila High School, and Union High School. “We invite teenagers, young adults, and adults out to see the show,” shares tour manager Jordan Robert Arnie Simmons. “You won’t find crude language or references. This is being shared in an effort to help address youth depression and suicide. This is done through hope, optimism, and well-crafted humor all displayed in live theatre…With humor and inventiveness, the story explores depression and hope, uncertainty and change, relationships and solitude, risk and resilience, guilt and forgiveness.” Plan to attend the free production of ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ on Monday, January 6th, at 7:30pm at the Vernal Middle School Auditorium.
