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"On Golden Pond"
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by Ernest Thompson
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Directed by Mary Hill
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July 19 - 21, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
July 22, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
July 26 - 28, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
July 29, 2007 at 2:30 p.m.
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Synopsis
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning
to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-fourth 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.
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Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
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