Mesa Encore Theatre Announces THE GIN GAME Free Event

Join the Mesa Encore Theatre at the Black Box for a FREE EVENT on Sunday June 11th.

This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize, 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, lonely old age.

This is a free event, though donations are gladly accepted (we have some costs due to rights and scripts, though the actors and directors donate their time).

M.E.T at 933 - Black Box Play Reading Series Presents:
The Gin Game
Playing June 11th at 7:00 p.m.

M.E.T at 933 - Black Box
933 E. Main St. Mesa, AZ 85203

Directed by Janis Webb