Ernest Thompson | Monthly Archives: December 2021

World Premiere of ASK/ANSWER – POSTPONED

Posted on December 10, 2021

Ernest Thompson, Oscar-winning writer of ON GOLDEN POND, is directing and starring in his newest play, ASK/ANSWER, premiering January 19 – February 13 at the newly renovated Mass Music & Arts Society (MMAS) in Mansfield, MA, across the street from where Thompson lived as a boy, his former backyard now the Xfinity Center (originally Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts). ASK/ANSWER is based on the real life story of his co-star, well-known Boston/Providence actor

Revisit ‘On Golden Pond’ this month and meet screenwriter Ernest Thompson

Posted on December 7, 2021

Donna Whitehead, Wicked Local – MANSFIELD – When a Hollywood actors’ strike threatened to shut down production of On Golden Pond in the summer of 1980, actress Katharine Hepburn got on the phone with the Screen Actors Guild and pointed out that the lead actors had about 17 minutes left to live since both were in their 70s. The guild relented and On Golden Pond, the story of cantankerous retiree Norman Thayer (Henry Fonda) and

Meet Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ernest Thompson in Mansfield, see ‘On Golden Pond’ in Foxboro

Posted on December 3, 2021

MANSFIELD — Ernest Thompson, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the hit film “On Golden Pond,” will bring his Oscar statuette and talk about his life growing up in Mansfield at two events in December. The events are being held before the world premiere of Thompson’s new play, “Ask/Answer,” being performed at MMAS in January. “An Evening with Ernest Thompson” will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, in the newly renovated MMAS theater at