Northwest Indiana Excellence in Theatre Foundation

On Golden Pond
by Earnest Thompson
directed by Bonnie and Rip Johnson

Performance dates
Fridays and Saturdays June 3, 4, 10 & 11 2022 – 7:30 PM
Sundays June 5 & 12 – 2 PM

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. 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.

Performances are at Beatniks on Conkey, 420 Conkey Street, Hammond

Doors open 1/2 hour before the curtain

Tickets are $18.00. Cash only at the door, please. Click HERE to purchase tickets online in advance

Due to limited seating, reservations are strongly suggested. Call 219-852-0848

TAKEOVER ALERT! Our Junior RGOT Champ is commandeering the RPAC Theater and YouTube channel! Maritza will host a short telethon of her own to benefit both RPAC and her charity of choice: the Down Syndrome Association of Northwest Indiana. All proceeds from this event (ticket sales and donations) will be split 50/50 between both organizations.

On Golden Pond
by Earnest Thompson
directed by Bonnie and Rip Johnson

Performance dates
Fridays and Saturdays June 3, 4, 10 & 11 2022 – 7:30 PM
Sundays June 5 & 12 – 2 PM

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. 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.

Performances are at Beatniks on Conkey, 420 Conkey Street, Hammond

Doors open 1/2 hour before the curtain

Tickets are $18.00. Cash only at the door, please. Click HERE to purchase tickets online in advance

Due to limited seating, reservations are strongly suggested. Call 219-852-0848

a play by J.B. Priestley

directed by Sandra Assarian

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl’s undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, who turns out to be a mysterious individual with full knowledge of everyone’s connection with the suicide, but with questionable credentials. The family begins to question if the suicide actually happened. Their doubt is soon discharged as the play unfolds its unlikely ending.

An Inspector Calls is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York

• Performances June 4, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 & 2022 at 8:00 pm
• Sunday performances June 5, 12, & 19th at 3:00 pm

a play by J.B. Priestley

directed by Sandra Assarian

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl’s undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, who turns out to be a mysterious individual with full knowledge of everyone’s connection with the suicide, but with questionable credentials. The family begins to question if the suicide actually happened. Their doubt is soon discharged as the play unfolds its unlikely ending.

An Inspector Calls is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York

• Performances June 4, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 & 2022 at 8:00 pm
• Sunday performances June 5, 12, & 19th at 3:00 pm

a play by J.B. Priestley

directed by Sandra Assarian

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl’s undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, who turns out to be a mysterious individual with full knowledge of everyone’s connection with the suicide, but with questionable credentials. The family begins to question if the suicide actually happened. Their doubt is soon discharged as the play unfolds its unlikely ending.

An Inspector Calls is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York

• Performances June 4, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 & 2022 at 8:00 pm
• Sunday performances June 5, 12, & 19th at 3:00 pm