The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by Donald L. Coburn that returns to the Golden Theatre 45th st previews begin September 18, 2015 opening October 13, 2015 , directed by Leonard Foglia. Staring James Earl Jones (You Can’t Take With You) and Cicely Tyson (Trip to Bountiful).
First Preview Sep 18, 2015
Opening Night Oct 13, 2015
Closing Date Jan 10 2016
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The Story
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other’s company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and they begin playing a series of games that Fonsia always wins. Weller’s inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, while Fonsia becomes increasingly confident.
While playing their games of gin, they engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games, as each player tries to expose the other’s weaknesses, to belittle the other’s life, and to humiliate the other thoroughly.
Donald L. Coburn.
Is an American dramatist. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1978 for his play The Gin Game.
Coburn was born in Baltimore, Maryland to parents who divorced two years later. He graduated from high school in 1957, then served in the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1960. He has been married twice, first to Nazle Joyce French, whom he married in 1964 and divorced in 1971, then to Marsha Woodruff Maher in 1975. He had his own advertising company from 1965 to 1968. He then worked for the Stanford Advertising Agency in Dallas, Texas from 1968 to 1971. He worked as a marketing consultant from 1973 to 1976.
Gin Game played at the John Golden Theatre (Now Golden Theatre) Opening Night 6 October 1977 with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy directed by Mike Nichols and had its first revival on April 1997 at the Lyceum Theatre with Charles Durning and Julie Harris directed by Charles Nelson Reilly.
Creative Team
Produced by Ostar Productions
Written by D.L. Coburn
Directed by Leonard Foglia
Scenic Design by Riccardo Hernandez
Costume Design by Riccardo Hernandez
Lighting Design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer
Sound Design by David Van Tieghem
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