Kanata Theatre Past Productions

Author(s)

Written by Ernest Thompson

Description

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.

Media

No Program can be found for this Production!

Cast

BILL	George K. Thompson
BILLY	Jeffrey Robert Knight
CHARLIE	Bob Lackey
CHELSEA	Jane McLaren
ETHEL	Gwen Knight
NORMAN	Brooke Keneford

Production Staff

Director	Annmarie Copple
Production Manager	Charles Hill
Stage Manager	Gwendy Tolley
Assistant Stage Manager	Anne Holland
Assistant Stage Manager	Carin Goodman
Stage Crew	Andrew Williams
Stage Crew	Colin Williams
Stage Crew	Karl Wagner
Stage Crew	Wendy Wagner
Set Design	Dorothy Shaw
Set Construction	Bill Williams
Set Construction	Earl McLaughlin
Set Construction	Geoff Holland
Set Construction	Jen Pezaro
Set Construction	Kelly Brown
Set Construction	Mark Pezaro
Set Construction	Peter Jefferson
Furnishings	Ada Timmins
Furnishings	Erin Lowell
Lighting Design	Alan Goodman
Lighting Design	Paul Gardner
Sound Design	Rob Mitchell
Composer	Rob Mitchell
Properties	Barbara Kobolak
Properties	Jane Chadsey
Properties	Joy Forbes
Properties	Marianne Wilkinson
Costumes	Bev Brooks
Costumes	Cheryl (Knight) Mitchell
Costumes	Margaret Robitaille
Continuity	Ann Williams
Continuity	Bev Brooks
Continuity	Teija Crebbin
Make-up	Dorothy Beak
Make-up	Rosemary Keneford
Hair Styling	Carol Walkey