Berkshire on Stage

by Gail M. Burns Oldcastle Producing Artistic Director Eric Peterson has written a play about the ongoing local PFOA crisis. In case you don’t live locally, plants in North Bennington VT, Hoosick Falls, NY, and various other local towns used chemicals that leached PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic acid) into the soil and…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The production of Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond currently running at Oldcastle is definitely feel-good summer theatre. There is nothing wrong with that. I personally had a very good time at the show, especially since Carleton Carpenter’s Norman Thayer reminded me very much of my…