On Golden Pond
by StageCenter Community Theatre

Nov. 30 - Dec. 16, 2023
Fridays-Sundays

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever.

Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

Feature in the Bryan Eagle by Emma Lawson, November 30, 2023

Directed by Robin Sutton

CAST

Norman Thayer, Jr - Charles Pitman

Ethel Thayer - Mona Butala

Charlie Martin - Tim Scott

Chelsea Thayer Wayne - Paula Countryman

Billy Ray - Brandt Limen Brackin

Bill Ray - Chris Rogers

Operator - Annette Brittain

“ON GOLDEN POND is a work of rare simplicity and beauty, and in
Thompson our theatre has found a fresh new voice.” —NY Daily News.
“…a rare and memorable theatrical experience…” —Variety.

“What courage it must have taken for Mr. Thompson in the 1970s to write a play with so
much affection in it!” —The New Yorker.

DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE

ON GOLDEN POND

By Ernest Thompson

 

 

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On Golden Pond
StageCenter Community Theatre

Performances
Nov 30 - Dec 16, 2023
Sunday matinee December 10 at 2 pm