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Start: Hello… Um. How’s the weather?......

Norman Thayer, Jr.

On Golden Pond

Ernest Thompson

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Show
On Golden Pond
Character
Norman Thayer, Jr.
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult, Elderly
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene Two
Time & Place
A summer cottage, Golden Pond, Maine, autumn,
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: Hello… Um. How’s the weather?... Oh. No earthquakes?... Good… Oh, I don’t know if we’ll be able to come way out there.

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End: Listen, Ethel and I are coming out to visit, you know. … Oh, yes. In the winter...I’m not bullshitting you… Yes. Me, too. Bye! Adieu, mon vieux. (He hangs up, feeling quite chipper.) I talked to Billy.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Thompson, Ernest. On Golden Pond. Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY. 1979. p. 69.

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