THEATER | The Gin Game - Tannery Pond Community Center

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts presents: The Gin Game by D. L. Coburn

Sunday, July 13 | 3:00 PM

Featuring Adirondack favorites Jordan Hornstein and Anne Buckwheat, this winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama uses a card game as a metaphor for life. Opening at the Arts Center and touring to Tannery Pond Center, Indian Lake Theater, View Arts, and the Wild Center. Get your tickets now!

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The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn

Co-directed by Karen Lordi-Kirkham and Jordan Hornstein Featuring: Jordan Hornstein as Weller Martin; Anne Buckwheat as Fonsia Dorsey 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, 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. 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.

This performance will have two parts and include an intermission.

Performances:

• Fri & Sat, July 11, 12: Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake

• Sun, July 13: Tannery Pond Center, North Creek

• Mon, July 14: Indian Lake Theater, Indian Lake

• Tue, July 15: View Arts, Old Forge

• Thu, July 17: The Wild Center, Tupper Lake