The Gin Game

By D.L. Coburn

Directed by Cheryl Higgins

March 18-21, 1982

   The Story  

This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, which originally starred Jesica Tandy and Hume Cronin and revived in 1999 with Julie Harris and Charles Durning, uses a 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. Fonsia wins every time and their secrets become weapons used against one another. Weller longs for a victory to counter a lifetime of defeats but it doesn't happen. He leaves the stage a broken man and Fonsia realizes her self righteous rigidity has led to an embittered, lonely old age.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French.

  The Cast   

Fonsia Dorsey	Esther J. Stagle
Weller Martin	Keith Cummins

  Production Staff   

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