REQUIREMENTS / NOTICE: All actors are fully vaccinated. To keep our audiences, actors and crew safe, we now REQUIRE PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION for ALL who attend, and MASKS MUST BE WORN throughout the production. Attendance will be capped at 50% capacity. If you purchased tickets prior to this revised notice, and don’t meet the requirements, we will refund your tickets. Sadly, for kids or anyone else not vaccinated, we can not accommodate. Our goal is to keep LIVE theater alive!
Questions? Email to: info@tpnc.org
THE STORY: 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 leave his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for. In the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits. Presented to great critical and popular acclaim first off then on Broadway, this touching, funny and warmly perceptive study of a spirited and lovable elderly couple facing their twilight years introduced a significant playwright to our theatre. “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.
On Golden Pond is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Questions? Email to: info@tpnc.org
THE STORY: 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 leave his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for. In the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits. Presented to great critical and popular acclaim first off then on Broadway, this touching, funny and warmly perceptive study of a spirited and lovable elderly couple facing their twilight years introduced a significant playwright to our theatre. “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.
On Golden Pond is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Production Team
Director :
John Atkin
Stage Manager:
Terry Le Bel
Set Design :
Joel Reynolds
Lighting Design:
Patricia Spugani
Costume Design:
Christine Mallardi
Sound Design :
Jeff Pliskin
Cast
Norman Thayer, Jr. :
Ted Yudain
Ethel Thayer:
Gail Yudain
Chelsea Thayer Wayne:
Gillian Holt
Billy Ray:
Zachary Helgesen
Bill Ray:
Roger Dykeman
Charlie Martin:
Tim Brandt
