Vienna Theatre Company Presents: On Golden Pond

"On Golden Pond"

by Earnest Thompson

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th 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, 10 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. 

Auditions: 

Aug. 14 and 15
6:30 p.m.

Callbacks Aug. 17.

*All auditions and rehearsals will take place at the Vienna Community Center.

Show Dates: 

Fridays and Saturdays
Oct. 20, 21, 27, 28 and Nov. 3 and 4
8p.m.

Sundays
Oct. 29 and Nov. 5
2 p.m.

Tickets:

All tickets $16. Tickets for this play will go on sale Aug. 7 for residents and Aug. 14 for those who live outside Town limits. 

Tickets can be purchased in advance via WebTrac, at the Vienna Community Center, and at the door before showtime, if still available.