Cedar City • Sitting in the audience at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Brenda Jeppson suddenly found herself taking off her sock (with help from her husband), putting it on her hand and pretending it was a puppet.
The retired English teacher from Taylorsville wasn’t having some sort of breakdown. She was an impromptu part of the one-man — plus the audience — play, “Every Brilliant Thing,” acting opposite star Michael Doherty. And she was loving every minute of it.
That seems unexpected, given the subject matter. Doherty plays a man whose mother repeatedly attempts suicide — and who, as a child, decides to put together a list of every brilliant thing that makes life worth living, in an attempt to make her want to stay alive.