2025 Oscar Winner Ernest Thompson

Oscar Winner to Perform His One-Man Play at Park Theatre

Ernest Thompson brings his new play to the Jaffrey, NH performing arts center stage on August 2.

Many may not know that the classic film, On Golden Pond, started as a play in 1979 on the New York stage starring Frances Sternhagen and Tom Aldredge. It continues to be performed all over the world in multiple languages. The author of the play, Ernest Thompson, adapted the play into a film starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda. It won many awards including multiple Oscars including one for Mr. Thompson’s screenplay. Mr. Thompson has written many plays since then and he is on a world premiere tour of his newest work, Archie Parish’s Parting Words. The play will have one performance at The Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire on Saturday, August 2 at 7:30pm.

In this powerful one-man show, directed by and starring the author, Ernest Thompson performs a cast of characters as hilarious, imperfectly human and heartrending as those in his most iconic work—On Golden Pond—his three dozen other plays, ten films and two novels.

Movement is a metaphor in Archie Parish’s Parting Words and audiences will find inspiration from the not young but youthful writer/actor/director and long-ago dancer, fearless in demonstrating that it really is possible in our lives, at any stage, to move (on).

The production is presented by Sunstreet Productions and Beyond the Barn.

Ticket Information
Tickets for this unforgettable evening are priced at $35 and all seats are reserved. Secure your seats early to experience this remarkable performance in The Park Theatre’s state-of-the-art venue. Tickets can be purchased online at theparktheatre.org or by calling the box office at (603) 532-8888.

The theatre is located at 19 Main Street in downtown Jaffrey, NH. It is a 90 minute drive from Boston and 60 minutes from Worcester, MA.

About Ernest Thompson

Ernest Thompson’s work has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, Writers Guild and Broadway Drama Guild Awards and been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy and a British Academy Award. His plays have been seen in theatres around the world, his most enduring, On Golden Pond, translated into 30 languages and presented in more than 40 countries. Current projects include an On Golden Pond Broadway revival, directed by and starring the author, true also of his new one-man play, Archie Parish’s Parting Words, now on tour in the Northeast, the short film The Constituent, and the long-awaited sequel, Home On Golden Pond. His novel Out Clause arrives on October 7th, 2025. With his writer wife Kerrin Thompson, he established Rescind Recidivism, a prison writing program giving inmates a chance to feel creative as well as human, capable and worthy.

Learn more at www.ErnestThompson.us.

2025 Oscar Winner Ernest Thompson

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