By DL Colburn
Performances: November 12-13
Saturday and Sunday @ 7:30 PM
Sunday matinee @ 2:00 PM

WHERE:
The RISE Playhouse
142 Clinton Street
Woonsocket, RI
Ample municipal parking available

Tickets: $20 General/ $16 Seniors, Students, Military
Available at the door or online at www.ristage.org

This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which originally starred Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, uses a card game as a metaphor for life.

Weller Martin (Steve Taschereau) is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home. Enter Fonsia Dorsey (Maureen Noel), a prim, self-righteous lady. They discover that 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.

This production is a rare chance to see the play that the Boston Globe called “Perfect…a vibrant study on loneliness, disillusion, old age, and death, yet fiercely funny” and the New York Times called “the closest thing the theater offers to a duel at 10 paces.”

Approximate Running Time: 2.5 hours including intermission