By: Earnest Thompson

Performed
July 15 – 17, 2022
at
Tussy Mountain Lodge

Production Staff

Director/Stage Manager/Lights, Sound	Kerry Clancy-Burns
Set Construction	Rob Burns
Stage Crew	Kyrra Gelinas
Videographer	Jerry Sawyer

About the Show

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 has 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. Time, they know, is against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

The Cast

Norman Thayer Jr.	Mercer Bristow
Ethel Thayer	Katie Rimmer
Charlie Martin	Jared Kehler
Chelsea Thayer Wayne	Elizabeth Baptista
Billy Ray	Ben Coudriet
Bill Ray	Rob Arnold
The Operator	Kerry Clancy-Burns

Promo Video

Production Stills