SSP - On Golden Pond

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About the Show...

Second Street Players / Riverfront Theater / 2 South Walnut St. / Milford, DE 19963 / info@secondstreetplayers.com

THE CAST

Norman... Chuck Rafferty

Ethel... Gina Shuck

Chelsea... Susannah Griffin

Bill Sr... Len Hedges-Goettl

Billy... Wesley Mann

Charlie... Chris Ennis

Operator... Janice Hall

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Director... Marge Ventura

Assistant Director/Producer... Ann Nichols

Stage Manager... Savannah Simon

Artistic Scene Designer/Set Painter... Dawn Nickerson

Set Designer/Head Builder... Ed O'Connor

Set Construction... Ed O'Connor and Team

Light Design... Chris Myers

Light Tech... Gabe Marine

Sound Design... Alex Shaw

Props, Costumes, Set Dressing...

Janice Hall and Carol Torrey

Photography... Len Willens and Teresa Rodriguez

Videographer... Teresa Rodriguez

Publicity...

SaraKate Hammer - Laura Howard - Ann Nichols

Programs... Steven Haber

SSP Webmaster... John Zinzi

ABOUT THE SHOW...

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.

Norman 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.