By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on May 23, 2010, at 9:15 AM Updated on 5/23 at 9:15 AM
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The full review of "On Golden Pond" by Theatre Tulsa will appear in Monday's Tulsa World.
For those considering attending the play's Sunday afternoon show, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Tulsa PAC, here's an excerpt.
The Thayers’ cabin on Golden Pond in Maine, is designed to do one simple task: house the members of a family comfortably for a couple of months each summer.
Ernest Thompson’s 1979 play “On Golden Pond” performs a similar task. It gives audiences a couple of hours in the company of the Thayer clan as they spend what may be their last summer on the shore of this particular lake.
Theatre Tulsa’s staging of “On Golden Pond” is the company’s final offering of its 2009-2010 season — appropriate, as Thompson’s play is a quiet, elegiac comedy. Its aims are simple, its action sparse, its tone low-key. It is about as pure a slice-of-life play as one can imagine, which means its success lies in how convincingly its cast can do “ordinary.”
In this case, the answer is, “Pretty darn well.”
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