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This is the love story of Ethel and
Norman Thayer, who are returning to
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 Broadview Heights Spotlights celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2008.
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