Unique Udpate
NEW HAMPSHIRE THIS WEEKEND by Rick Ganley ~ Hippo Editor Amy Diaz talks with NHPR’s Rick Ganley about a new play from New Hampshire’s Ernest Thompson, Political Suicide.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
New Hampshire Primary
NH PRIMARY: ERNEST THOMPSON, AUTHOR OF ‘ON GOLDEN POND’ by Doug “VB” Goudie ~ VB talks to Academy Award winner Ernest Thompson, author of “On Golden Pond,” about the New Hampshire primary and his latest play, “Political Suicide.” Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston
Funnier Than the Debates
‘POND’ WRITER PARODIES POLITICIANS AND PROTESTERS by Lynne Tuohy ~ CONCORD, N.H.—As candidates crisscross New Hampshire in their quest for votes, an Academy Award-winning writer thinks the time is ripe for “Political Suicide.” That is the title of four one-act plays Ernest Thompson – who wrote “On Golden Pond”– will stage beginning Sunday at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia. The plays are dark comedies that parody politicians and protesters alike. One is about taking the
Four New Plays
ERNEST THOMPSON INTRODUCES NEW POLITICAL PLAYS by Adam Coughlin ~ New Hampshire is widely known as a center of presidential politics. But it also has world-class theater. It only makes sense that the two would be joined and the man to do it would be perhaps New Hampshire’s most famous playwright. Political Suicide is a collection of four new plays written by Ernest Thompson, Academy Award-winning writer of On Golden Pond, that will