The Gin Game
By D.L. Coburn
Directed by Carol Charniga
February 7-9, 2025
Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, D.L. Coburn’s classic play chronicles the relationship between two unhappy denizens of a seedy nursing home — Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey — who play multiple games of gin rummy together. Their secrets, gradually revealed, become weapons as they navigate loneliness and old age.
“Funny, sad, profane, eloquent, touching, beautiful.” — WABC-TV
“The closest thing the theatre offers to a duel at 10 paces.” — The New York Times
- Performance times
- Friday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Feb. 8 at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm
Sunday, Feb. 9 at 2:30 pm - Admission
- FREE (with donations greatly appreciated!)
- Location
- Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Ave., Albany, NY
Click here for a map. - Note on COVID safety
- For the 2024-25 season, mask-wearing is optional at Theater Voices shows (subject to change based on CDC and community health guidelines).
Carol Charniga (Director) has been a vital part of Theater Voices since 1995, directing seven productions including A Lesson Before Dying, Ah, Wilderness, Trying and Copenhagen, as well as performing in six shows, including playing Marjorie in Marjorie Prime, and serving on the board. She’s appeared as an actress across the Capital District and beyond, at NYSTI, Capital Rep, Mac-Haydn, Theater Barn, Cohoes Music Hall and others. She was most recently seen as Violet in August: Osage County at SCP, and in the one-woman show Becoming Dr. Ruth at Curtain Call Theatre. Now retired after over 30 years in neurosurgery research, she’s a proud mother with six precious grandchildren.
