by Ernest Thompson
directed by Bob Giasson
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.
On Golden Pond
Sept 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26
& Oct 1 & 2
by: Neil Simon
Directed by: Len Hirst
Maureen Stapleton won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress for the role of Evy Meara, a popular singer who has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a jolly birthday party. Enter Lou Tanner, a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The party is a wash out, the "gingerbread lady" falls off the wagon and hits the ropes once again. Later rewritten by Neil Simon as the film Only When I Laugh starring Marsha Mason.
Gingerbread Lady
Nov 18, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28
& Dec 3 & 4
by: Ray Cooney
Directed by: Carl Cashin
If you think your life is complicated, imagine the life of two-timing taxi driver John Smith who keeps two separate families!
When his teenage children (a girl from one family and a boy from the other) meet in an Internet chat room and are anxious to meet in person, John's already hectic life shifts into high gear as he tries to keep his double life a secret.
Caught In the Net
Feb 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20,
Feb 26 & 27 ( 2011)
by: Neil Simon
Directed by: Len Hirst
It centers on Jake, a writer with a struggling marriage. Jake talks to many of the women he knows, both in real life and in his imagination, as he works to save his marriage. Jake, suffering with psychosis and seeing representations of his daughter at age 12, his late wife Julie and recently divorced wife Maggie, is dealing with the inability to write productively and must resolve these issues before he does so.
Jakes Woman
May 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 June 3 & 4
On Golden Pond
Gingerbread Lady
By Neil Simon
