On Golden Pond

Perhaps best remembered from the 1981 film adaptation starring Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn, this funny and touching comedy tells the story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond, Maine for the forty-fourth year. When their estranged daughter returns to renew her relationship – and to persuade them to keep her fiancé’s thirteen year old son for the summer – Norman and Ethel are confronted with unexpected changes. Norman’s charming humor and Ethel’s caring warmth are tested as Norman’s health, and spirits, decline. Hailed by theatre critics as "a work of rare simplicity and beauty," On Golden Pond is a moving sentimental family drama filled with humor and an energetic spirit.