Ever After Productions with Dramatists Play Services, Inc. and Jan Daigle, producer/director presents On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson at the Catoosa Colonnade in Ringgold, Ga. May 16th through the 24th.
On Golden Pond is a 1979 play by Ernest Thompson that was produced as a movie in 1981 starring Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn.
The plot focuses on aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on a lake called Golden Pond. During the year the story takes place, they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fiancé and his son. The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage.
This production of On Golden Pond features: Chuck Nalley as Norman Thayer, Jr, Kimberly Tyner Jones as Ethel Thayer, Ed Huckabee as Charlie Martin (The Mailman), Amanda Grimm Dallas as Chelsea Thayer Wayne, Jac Curole as Billy Ray Jr. and Bobby Daniels as Billy Ray. If this performance was a movie it would be rated PG.
On Golden Pond performance times are: May 16 at 7:30 p.m., May 17 at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., May 23 at 7:30 p.m. and May 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $11 for adults, $9 for seniors and students and available by calling (706) 935-9000, www.everafterprod.com or at www.colonnadecenter.org.