Saybrook Stage Company was honored to highlight The Kate’s 10 Year Celebration with the stage rendition of On Golden Pond. This poignant and comedic piece by Ernest Thompson inspired the Hollywood blockbuster movie that not only was one of Katharine Hepburn’s most cherished performances but it also earned her a fourth Academy Award for Best Actress. On Golden Pond is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued and witty as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, delights in all the small things that have enriched their long married life together. In the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together as they find themselves alone again On Golden Pond, The play originally opened on Broadway in 1979 and then was made into a movie in 1981 starring Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda – both actors won an Academy Award for their respective performances.