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The Gin Game

A Drama

by Donald Coburn

October 19-29 2023

This play is Rated PG-13

This Production does have adult language

Individual tickets go on sale November 1st 2022

This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 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. 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.

Tickets are $30.00 Reserved Seating

(Stage Left seats are elevated if you have trouble with steps we recommend purchasing seats in Row A or B.)

Performances

Thursday October 19 7:00pm

Friday October 20 7:00pm

Saturday October 21 7:00pm

Sunday October 22 2:00pm

Thursday October 26 7:00pm

Friday October 27 7:00pm

Saturday October 28 7:00pm

Sunday October 29 2:00pm