The Gin Game
By D.L. Coburn
May 17 - June 9, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:00 p.m.
Sundays 5/26, 6/2, 6/9 @ 4:00 p.m.
This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which originally starred Jessica Tandy and
Hume Cronyn and was later revived with Julie Harris and Charles Durning, uses a card game as
a metaphor for life. Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home.
Enter Fonsia Dorsey, a prim, self-righteous lady. They discover they both dislike the home
and enjoy gin rummy, so they begin to play and to reveal intimate details of their lives.
As the games continue the facts of their lives are stripped bare and their true identities
are revealed.