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 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.

PERFORMANCER DATES: February 12-27, 2010

CAST: Norman Thayer Jr – Bob Lancaster, Ethel Thayer – Dona Lancaster, Charlie Martin – Kim Smith, Chelsea Thayer Wayne – Sylvia Tilley, Bill Ray – Lewis D. Mize, Bill Ray Jr – Kaden Herbert

CREW: Director – Derek Jensen, Stage Manager – Sherry Polkinghorn, Light Board Operator/Sound Board Operator – Judy Smith, Light Design – Derek Jensen, Sound Design – Alan Stukenholtz, Costume Design – Cindy Thomson, Set Design – Bob Lancaster, MJ Straight, Jim Gilman, Derek Jensen, Sherry Polkinghorn, Sarah Schaeffer, Dona Lancaster, Electrical Rigging – Karl Stinemetz

MENU: Fresh greens with balsamic vinaegrette, Ethel’s biscuits, New England roast pork with maple/mustard sauce and apple, seasonal vegetables, roasted potatoes, berry cobbler.  Catering provided by Chris Morlen, Sherry Merica, Marcus Schmitt, Kristi South, Sherry Pokinghorn, Nicole Webb.