
Starring Stefanie Powers, Richard Johnson and Elizabeth Carling.
Main Auditorium
Playing from Tuesday 10 Apr 2012
By Ernest Thompson
Starring Stefanie Powers, Richard Johnson and
Elizabeth Carling.
Middle Ground Theatre Company presents the timeless and endearing love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. They are joined by their daughter and her fiancée, who leave their teenage son with Norman and Ethel while they travel to Europe.
A deeply moving and touching exploration of the relationship between the elderly couple, their daughter and their grandson follows. As the summer wanes, there is a realisation is that time is against them. But the years have been good, and perhaps there is another summer on Golden Pond still to enjoy...
The classic film of On Golden Pond, which starred Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda, went on to win 3 Academy Awards including Best Actor and Best Actress for Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn.
Richard Johnson is a veteran star of Hollywood films, an RSC and National Theatre leading man and a national treasure. Elizabeth Carling is best known from her regular roles in Boon, Goodnight Sweetheart and Casualty.
"A work of rare simplicity and beauty" - The New York Daily News