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