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The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by Donald L. Coburn that premiered at American Theater Arts in Hollywood in September 1976, directed by Kip Niven. It was Coburn's first play, and the theater's first production. The play won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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.
Apr 21, 1981 · The Gin Game: Directed by Terry Hughes. With Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn. Weller Martin challenges his new friend Fonsia Dorsey to a game of Gin. But is suddenly in for more than he wagers.
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- Terry Hughes
- 1981-04-21
Jul 22, 2023 · A moving story of the developing relationship between two elderly people in a rest home, the play unfolds during various hands of gin rummy... After its successful Broadway run, the play enjoyed an eight month cross country tour, then traveled abroad to London and Russia.
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The Gin Game shows how easy and how tragic it is to let one's own self-serving habits get in the way of something good. Weller and Fonsia are too caught up in their personal demons to reach out to each other, and thus they perpetuate the loneliness that they have always brought upon themselves.
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