THEN WE’LL REST

Written by Eliya Smith
Directed by Marvin Merritt IV

Coming to David’s Folly Farm from August 1–18, 2024.
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Penny and Polly are best friends and gymnastics rivals. They like to make up stories together and eat donuts in the car. After getting in a big fight, they grow up and grow apart. Penny gets sad and Polly gets sick. They’re lonely and still competing over something neither of them can name. This is a play about getting lost at sea and seduced by power; about two friends searching for purpose; and about beauty, grief, love, and ambition.

Loosely inspired by Chekhov's enduring masterpiece UNCLE VANYA, THEN WE'LL REST is a humorously-poignant play deftly crafted by one of America's most promising up-and-coming playwrights Eliya Smith. Marvin Merritt IV, Artistic & Executive Director of ISLE, directs this epic world premiere staged on the historic saltwater property of David's Folly Farm in Brooksville, Maine, guaranteed to remind you of the most difficult and beautiful things about growing up.