JAG, whose name corresponds with Green's initials, was founded by Green, its artistic director, in 2016. Presented by JAG Productions, Every Brilliant Thing opens with preview performances at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction on Thursday and Friday, April 27 and 28, before formally opening on Saturday, April 29. Green's Performance is his acting debut with the company

During the play, Green calls on audience members to recite some of the 'brilliant' items that populate his list. When his mother attempts suicide when Green's character is 7, the boy makes a list of reasons to be alive, including eating ice cream, the color yellow and peeing in the sea (with no one knowing). The role Green was working on that day is the central one in Every Brilliant Thing, a one-person play in which his character - called simply the Narrator - confronts his mother's depression, and later his own, at various times in his life. When Green returned to the rehearsal floor, the 41-year-old actor seemed to inhabit the body and spirit of a young boy who was, instinctively, doing what he could to comfort himself: wearing warm and cozy slippers.

At a recent rehearsal for Every Brilliant Thing, Jarvis Antonio Green stepped away from the practice space momentarily, took off his black Doc Martens sneakers, and put on a pair of black-and-white slipper socks.

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