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The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by D.L. Coburn. The play won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 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... full article at wikipedia

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Created by tristan Apr 10, 2007
Last edited by gardening_bot May 27, 2008

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