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The Gin Game, by D.L. Coburn
(Music/Theatre/Dance)
For Mature Audiences (adult language). "The Gin Game" is a two-act, four-scene play about a woman in her twilight years, Fonsia Dorsey (played by Sue Ott Rowlands, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences), who enters a "home for the aged" and is, for a while, saved from melancholy by the crusty charm of Weller Martin (played by David Johnson, faculty member in the Department of Theatre Arts). The sardonic Weller cajoles Fonsia into playing a series of gin games on the home's sunlit porch. As they seemingly become close companions, much is revealed about their respective regret-filled lives--to the steady shuffling and playing of cards. Their mutual need for solace is momentarily satisfied, until Weller's pent-up rages, and Fonsia's subtle needling, build to a terrible confrontation. Run time 1 hour and 50 minutes with one 10 minute intermission.
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