On Golden Pond

An elderly couple enjoy their latest summer in a cottage on a Maine lake, as they come to terms with the husband’s advancing age and his ongoing estrangement from his newly engaged daughter. On Golden Pond is a charming slice of life play that encompasses universal family themes such as aging, regret at actions taken and not taken, disappointment, love, resentment, loss, forgiveness, acceptance and renewal. It deals with a family coming to grips with finality and reflection as to whether or not they “measured up.” The setting is Golden Pond, Maine, the Thayer’s summer retreat where they have come for a long time and where they face perhaps their last summer.