On Golden Pond
by Ernest Thompson

Broadway
On Golden Pond Book Cover
On Golden Pond Cover

Highlights

120 mins 1970s Role(s) for Teen(s) Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle) Role(s) for Senior Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Tony Award

Nominee: Two 2005 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play Nominee: One 1979 Tony Award Nominee: Five 1979 Drama Desk Awards, including Best New Play

Synopsis

THE STORY: 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

Press Reviews

"On Golden Pond is a work of rare simplicity and beauty, and in Thompson our theatre has found a fresh new voice."

— New York Daily News

"What courage it must have taken for Mr. Thompson in the 1970s to write a play with so much affection in it!"

— The New Yorker

Characters

Character
Ethel Thayer
Charlie Martin
Chelsea Thayer Wayne
Billy Ray
Bill Ray
Norman Thayer, Jr.

Videos

On Golden Pond – Bristol Riverside Theatre Trailer

Publication

Year 1979
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822208488
ISBN-10 0822208482
LCCN 2007540881
LCC MLCS 2007/47188 (P)

On Golden Pond is a American play written by Ernest Thompson and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1979).

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