On Golden Pond (play)

On Golden Pond (play)

On Golden Pond is a 1979 play by Ernest Thompson. The plot focuses on aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on a lake called Golden Pond. During the year the story takes place, they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fiancé and his son in tow. The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage.

On Golden Pond

Tom Aldredge and Frances Sternhagen in the original Broadway production
Written by Ernest Thompson
Characters Norman Thayer, Jr.
Ethel Thayer
Chelsea Thayer Wayne
Billy Ray
Charlie Martin
Bill Ray
Setting The living room of a summer home on Golden Pond, in Maine. The Present.
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