On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson

Directed by Barbara Davis

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Performance Dates: December 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 2024. Fri & Sat 7:30, Sun 3:00

Pay-What-You-Will preview: Thursday December 5, 2024. 7:30.

A talkback with the director and cast to follow the Sunday, December 15th performance

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. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched 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. Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, while learning lessons about modern teenage awareness in return. As the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time is now against them, but the years have been good, and perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.