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The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by Donald L. Coburn that premiered at American Theater Arts in Hollywood in September 1976, directed by Kip Niven. It was Coburn's first play, and the theater's first production.
Jul 22, 2023 · D. L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize winning comedy drama was a. critical success from the moment it opened on Broadway. A moving story of the developing relationship between two elderly people in a rest home, the play unfolds during various hands of gin rummy...
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.
The official The Gin Game homepage. The Play, The Author, Production Notes, New Works, and more.
The Gin Game, two-act play by American dramatist D.L. Coburn, produced in 1976. It was Coburn’s first play, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1978, the year it was published. The Gin Game centres on the lives of two lonely residents of a retirement home.
Complete summary of D. L. Coburn's The Gin Game. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Gin Game.
The Gin Game is a two-person tragicomedy in two acts that uses a card game as a metaphor for life. D. L. Coburn conceived of the play first as a conflict between a man and a woman and strictly as a tragedy. He felt that the simplicity of two people and a card game could have more impact because of its concentrated format.
