BRILLIANT: A NEW MUSICAL
Tue, Sep 28
|New York
Part of the 2021 Broadway Bound Theater Festival. A family adjusts and readjusts to the challenges of having a having a child with different needs.
Time & Location
Sep 28, 2021, 5:00 PM
New York, 410 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, USA
About the event
ABOUT:
Sarah expected to have a family that replicated the one of her childhood home. However, when her second child, Adam, is diagnosed with behavioral challenges, she soon realizes that raising her son and keeping her family afloat will be far from the calm and easy pace of her past. Brilliant follows Sarah as she and her husband work to support Adam, although often falling short on providing him what he needs. After years of advocating to public institutions to help her son be accepted, his behaviors become too dangerous and leave Sarah lost with how to help him. Sarah and her husband are faced with an impossible choice of removing their son from their home to a place where we can receive the therapeutic help he needs, or continuing to face the daily struggles of fighting both for and against him.
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