Our 2025 Fall Production:
On Golden Pond
PERFORMANCE DATES:
September 25 & 26 at 7:00 PM
September 27 at 2:00 PM
October 2 & 3 at 7:00 PM
October 4 at 2:00 PM
WRCT Auditorium
James J. Malouf
Director
ABOUT THE PLAY: 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.
*THE CHARACTERS and CAST LIST​
Norman Thayer, Jr - Jaime Jastrab
Norman is an 80-year-old retired college professor who is spending the summer with his wife at their lake house in Maine.​
Ethel Thayer - Susan Edgren
Ethel is Norman's 69-year-old wife and is energetic, loving, and sociable.​​
Bill Ray - Andy Kleckner
Chelsea's fiancé, Bill is a dentist from California and father to thirteen-year-old Billie Rae.​
Billie Rae - Madelyn Southworth
Billie is the 13-year-old daughter of Chelsea's fiance.
Chelsea Thayer Wayne - Aliya Arroyo
Chelsea is the only child of Ethel and Norman and is 42 and divorced.
Charlie Martin - Daniel Bledsoe
Charlie is a local man who has known the Thayers since he was a kid.