Capitol Civic Centre
LITTLE SANDWICH THEATRE presents "The Gin Game"
Start Date/Time: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:30 PM
End Date/Time: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:30 PM
Recurring Event: One time event
Importance: Normal Priority
Description:

Weller Martin (Jim Dolan) and Fonsia Dorsey (Evelyn Keith), 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.

Tickets: $25.95 plus tax (including sandwich) Call ahead, 683-2184, to place sandwich order

 
Created by Lori On Friday, July 20, 2012 12:00 AM

 Return         

 Single     

Important Links