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The Gin GameMarch 7 - 9, 2025
By D.L Coburn
Directed by John C. Wilson
This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 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.
TICKETS: $15
Rated PG - Language
LOCATION: The Beall Theatre - 651 Pilot View St NW Winston Salem, NC 27101
(same physical building as Ihrie Theatre, but the entrance is on Pilot Street)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
650 W 6th St, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, North Carolina 27101, 650 W 6th St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101-1344, United States,Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Winston Salem
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