The Gin Game Coburn D. L.Paperback
The Gin Game Coburn D. L.Paperback Comedy/DramaCharacters: 1 male, 1 femaleExterior SetThis winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, which originally starred Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn and later revived…
Specifikacia The Gin Game Coburn D. L.Paperback
The Gin Game Coburn D. L.Paperback
Comedy/DramaCharacters: 1 male, 1 femaleExterior SetThis winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, which originally starred Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn and later revived with Julie Harris and Charles Durning, uses a game as a metaphor for life. Enter Fonsia Dorsey, a prim, self righteous lady. Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home.
Fonsia wins every time and their secrets become weapons used against one another. They discover they both dislike the home and enjoy gin rummy so they begin to play and to reveal intimate details of their lives. 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. "A thoroughly entertaining lesson in the fine art of theatrical finesse. The closest thing
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