The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center presents Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre’s production of The Gin Game
directed by Cathy Miles
featuring Bevelry Ross and Gregory Valentine
One performance on Sunday, April 17th at 2pm at the LGBT Community Center. 1110 N. Market St., 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Use courtyard entrance. Admission is free but donations for the LGBT Community Center programming events are accepted.

The Gin Game is a two-person, two-act play by Donald L. Coburn. The play won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

THE STORY: Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a run down 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.They realize a lot about their lives in the time spent at the card table.