Rest
by Samuel D. Hunter

Name: Rest
Brand: Samuel D. Hunter
SKU: 9780573704246
Rating: 3.81 (21 reviews)

Highlights

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120 mins Present Day Role(s) for Senior Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

A retirement home in northern Idaho is being shut down, and only three residents and a bare-bones staff remain.

When a record-breaking blizzard blows into town and an elderly resident disappears into the storm, everyone must face their own mortality.

With characteristic emotional delicacy, Samuel D. Hunter explores the specificities of aging and memory.

Press Reviews

"[A] warmhearted drama… unsentimental compassion for ordinary folk and their various approaches to mortality and other scary inevitabilities. The results are both tender and unsparing."
— Chicago Reader

"Deeply compassionate… Hunter’s play does traffic in life’s realities, of which Alzheimer’s is among the most painful. The main questions of this play — can we ever find peace in our old age, and is such a quest even desirable? — are crucially important, and Rest also hints at the complexities that flow from the way we outsource elder care to for-profit businesses, who find themselves caught between profit and compassion."
— Chicago Tribune

"[A] bracing look at love and loss."
— Stage and Cinema Theatre

"Extraordinary… an experience to behold."
— LA Splash

"Mixes quirkiness with poignancy in a drama that elicits steady laughter."
— Los Angeles Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Etta Early to mid-eighties, female.	female	—	Early to mid-eighties, female.
Tom Eighties, male.	male	—	Eighties, male.
Gerald 91, male.	male	—	91, male.
The Staff:	—	—	—
Faye Thirties, female.	female	—	Thirties, female.
Ginny Thirties, female.	female	—	Thirties, female.
Jeremy Forties, male.	male	—	Forties, male.
Ken 20, male.	male	—	20, male.
The Residents:	—	—	—