EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL by Chelsea Marcantel

Founder, Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisis

“WHAT REALLY MAKES EVERYMAN UNIQUE ARE THE PEOPLE ONSTAGE AND OFF.”

Playwright Chelsea Marcantel

credit: Chautauquan Daily

What Would you Tell Your High School Self, Knowing What You Know Now?

Life is really, really long. And the people who can be flexible and adaptive to changes in their lives are the people having the most fun. Also, kindness is incredibly underrated in high school, but when you get out, you realize that kindness makes the world go round.

CONFLICT: When the repentant driver in a fatal collision seeks forgiveness from the Amish family whose sons’ lives he claimed, faith guides them to welcome him into their community—and their home. This new energy brings forward a dark past. A drama about a peaceful community wrestling regret, redemption, and contradiction.

Terri Roberts, Mother of Charles Carl Roberts IV

Zachary Roberts

HER SON SHOT THEIR DAUGHTERS 10 YEARS AGO. THEN, THESE AMISH FAMILIES EMBRACED HER AS A FRIEND.

Sound Designer

Pornchanok Kanchanabanca

Interview with Sound Designer and Original Music Composer, Pornchanok Kanchanabanca

How do you personally connect to Everything Is Wonderful? What inspires you about this piece? [The] Amish [culture] is not something I’m familiar with at all. I grew up in Thailand and the first time I learned about Amish people was when I visited a relative in Jeromesville, Ohio, during my first year of graduate school. However, [this] story about family and being a woman is still something that anyone can connect to. As a woman, this story is about women who want to take control of their own choices and lives. It is also a story about family: I have always questioned why we are so harsh toward our loved ones but kinder to strangers.