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Pandemic Players: The Gin Game
November 20, 2021 @ 3:00 pm
Pandemic Players: The Gin Game
The Schoolhouse Theater’s Pandemic Players’, the longest regularly performing virtual theatre company in the country, weekly (impromptu) play readings continue with D.L. Coburn’s 1978 Pulitzer Prize winning play The Gin Game.
About The Gin Game
This two person play follows the relationship of two residents of a nursing home as one teaches the other how to play Gin Rummy. As the student racks up win after win, they begin to share stories of their life which turn into battles, much like the gin games, as they vie to belittle and humiliate each other. The Broadway production and its revivals has paired Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, E.G. Marshall and Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning and Julie Harris and James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson.
About the Schoolhouse Theater
The Schoolhouse Theater, founded by Lee Pope in 1983, is Westchester’s oldest non-profit Actor’s Equity theatre. The theatre, dedicated to producing new plays, has seen no less than seven of its shows moved to Off-Broadway. They have produced works by Jules Feiffer and Tina Howe. It’s current Artistic Director, Bram Lewis founded and ran The Phoenix Theatre in Purchase where he worked with Alan Arkin, Ellen Burstyn, Horton Foote, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Frances Sternhagen, Horton Foote and Elain Stritch among others.
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