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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.
Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game variant of rummy. It has enjoyed widespread popularity as both a social and a gambling game, especially during the mid twentieth century, and remains today one of the most widely played two-player card games.
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.
Gin rummy is a two-player card game using a standard 52-card deck. The rules are easy to learn. Players draw and discard, until one player “knocks” or “goes gin.” The Goal. Starting. Knocking. Scoring. Ending. When one player reaches the one hundred (100) points, the game ends.
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The official The Gin Game homepage. The Play, The Author, Production Notes, New Works, and more.
The Gin Game is a two-person tragicomedy in two acts that uses a card game as a metaphor for life. D. L. Coburn conceived of the play first as a conflict between a man and a woman and strictly as a tragedy. He felt that the simplicity of two people and a card game could have more impact because of its concentrated format.
The Gin Game, two-act play by American dramatist D.L. Coburn, produced in 1976. It was Coburn’s first play, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1978, the year it was published. The Gin Game centres on the lives of two lonely residents of a retirement home. While playing a series of gin rummy.
Dec 29, 2015 · In The Gin Game, an elderly man and woman meet on the porch of an old-age home and play a game of gin. The card game becomes a proxy for the characters’ struggles with...
In a seedy nursing home the destitute Weller sits playing a lonely, unsuccessful game of solitaire. Prim, self-righteous Fonsia Dorsey joins him and they begin to play gin rummy while...
