The Gin Game

by D.L. Coburn

October 18, 19, 20 2024
Friday & Saturday at 7:30 PM
Sunday at 2:00 PM

at CVLT's River Street Playhouse

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 and on television with Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke, 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.

(Contains adult language).