The Gin Game
Fri, Jul 11
|Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
Time & Location
Jul 11, 2025, 7:30 PM
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, 8897 NY-30, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812, USA
About The Event
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,…