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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.
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.
The official The Gin Game homepage. The Play, The Author, Production Notes, New Works, and more.
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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...
Complete summary of D. L. Coburn's The Gin Game. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Gin Game.
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.
Jun 1, 1979 · The Gin Game won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for drama. This is an intense, heartbreaking play set on the porch of an “old folks home” that is not as nice as the ones the main characters had been at or wanted to be at. Fonsia and Weller becomes friends and rivals over a game of gin.
The official YouTube page for THE GIN GAME written by D.L. Coburn and starring James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. Directed by Leonard Foglia. Now playing at the John Golden Theatre.
