ON GOLDEN POND

Directed by Steven D. Morris 
Starring Deborah Brown & David Coffee

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Sundays at 2 pm

*No performance on Saturday, May 6th due to the West Main Arts Fest. Come on out and join us! Theatre BARlington will be open!

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.

Adults:  $30  /  $32.45 online

Seniors 62+:  $28  /  $30.40 online

Students:  $28 /  $30.40 online

Groups of 10+:  $26 For groups of 10 or more. Reserve your seats in advance.  A 25% deposit is due at time of the reservation. Final numbers and payment are due 2 weeks prior to performance. Contact the box office to make group reservations. Student Rush:  $515 minutes before curtain, students with a current student ID may purchase any remaining seats for $5.