The Gin Game: A Tragi-Comedy In Two Acts
By D. L. Coburn.
Description
Comedy/Drama Characters: 1 male, 1 female Exterior Set This 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. 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 fo...
ISBN(s)
0573609764, 9780573609763
