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The Gin Game, by D.L. Coburn
April 26 @ 7:30 pm
D. L. Coburn earned a Pulitzer Prize with this play. It is a story about two elderly people living in a run-down Midwestern nursing home. Weller and Fonsia are both isolated by their pasts. Their relationship develops as they play Gin Rummy in the game room. Weller fancies himself a card shark. Fonsia, the novice, stubbornly wins hand after hand. There is great tension as each struggle to accommodate the conditions of their lives. There is tenderness, too, as they consider what the future holds in store for each of them.
Tim Diering
Tim’s been directing plays in the area for over 20 years. His productions include the 2004 East Coast premiere of RJ Colleary’s Cannibals… Mamma Drama… The Fantasticks… Shirley Valentine… I Fall for You… The Gin Game… All in the Timing… Almost Maine… Love/Sick… Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike… and Noises Off. Tim’s 2013 production of The 39 Steps went on to win 9 awards for excellence from the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters. He’s also directed shows in Boston and New York.
Tim is very grateful and excited to be back “home” at the Actor’s Studio – where it all began.
Pamela Battin-Sacks
Pamela is thrilled to be back at The Actor’s Studio working with Tim Diering and her husband Steve Sacks after last being seen here in Twelve Angry Women, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Last Summer at Blue Fish Cove, Picnic.
Recent productions throughout New England include: Firehouse Center for the Arts: Trifles; Punctuate4: Rite of Passage, Saltonstall’s Trial; Footlights Theatre: And No More Shall We Part, The Wicked Women of Whynot; Player’s Ring: Death of A Salesman, Patience Boston. ActOne: On A First Name Basis, Make Sure It’s Me.; LemonPunch Theatre Lab: I’ll Be Right There (Zoom).
She is deeply grateful to her theatre teachers: Leslie Pasternack (Lemon Punch Theatre Lab), Marc Clopton (Actor’s Studio of Newburyport), and Scott Fielding (Michael Chekhov Institute of Boston) and to her longstanding writers/actors group Group. She is also very thankful for the Newburyport acting community for all their years of encouragement, support, and friendship throughout the years. She is especially grateful to her partner in life and theatre, Steve.
Steven Sacks
Prior credits at the Actor’s Studio include And No More Shall We Part, Crippled Inside and No Victors, No Vanquished. Other productions include Punctuate4 Productions: Rite of Passage, Saltonstall’s Trial, The Battle Not Begun, Player’s Ring: A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman, Patience Boston, Footlights Theater: And No More Shall We Part, Firehouse Center for the Arts: Trifles, Lemon Punch Theater Lab: I’ll Be Right There. (Zoom). My deepest thanks and appreciation to our fabulous Director Tim Diering, and to my favorite acting partner and the love of my life, Pamela.
This production is directed by award-winning director, Tim Diering and features Pamela Battin-Sacks and Steven Sacks both whom have graced many stages from Boston to Portland.
When: April 25 – May 4, Fri/Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm
Tickets:: Tickets: Adults $25 Students/Seniors $20
Where: The Actors Studio: 1 Merrill Street, Crossroads Plaza, Salisbury, MA, 01952
Tim Diering
Tim’s been directing plays in the area for over 20 years. His productions include the 2004 East Coast premiere of RJ Colleary’s Cannibals… Mamma Drama… The Fantasticks… Shirley Valentine… I Fall for You… The Gin Game… All in the Timing… Almost Maine… Love/Sick… Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike… and Noises Off. Tim’s 2013 production of The 39 Steps went on to win 9 awards for excellence from the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters. He’s also directed shows in Boston and New York.
Tim is very grateful and excited to be back “home” at the Actor’s Studio – where it all began.
Pamela Battin-Sacks
Pamela is thrilled to be back at The Actor’s Studio working with Tim Diering and her husband Steve Sacks after last being seen here in Twelve Angry Women, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Last Summer at Blue Fish Cove, Picnic.
Recent productions throughout New England include: Firehouse Center for the Arts: Trifles; Punctuate4: Rite of Passage, Saltonstall’s Trial; Footlights Theatre: And No More Shall We Part, The Wicked Women of Whynot; Player’s Ring: Death of A Salesman, Patience Boston. ActOne: On A First Name Basis, Make Sure It’s Me.; LemonPunch Theatre Lab: I’ll Be Right There (Zoom).
She is deeply grateful to her theatre teachers: Leslie Pasternack (Lemon Punch Theatre Lab), Marc Clopton (Actor’s Studio of Newburyport), and Scott Fielding (Michael Chekhov Institute of Boston) and to her longstanding writers/actors group Group. She is also very thankful for the Newburyport acting community for all their years of encouragement, support, and friendship throughout the years. She is especially grateful to her partner in life and theatre, Steve.
Steven Sacks
Prior credits at the Actor’s Studio include And No More Shall We Part, Crippled Inside and No Victors, No Vanquished. Other productions include Punctuate4 Productions: Rite of Passage, Saltonstall’s Trial, The Battle Not Begun, Player’s Ring: A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman, Patience Boston, Footlights Theater: And No More Shall We Part, Firehouse Center for the Arts: Trifles, Lemon Punch Theater Lab: I’ll Be Right There. (Zoom). My deepest thanks and appreciation to our fabulous Director Tim Diering, and to my favorite acting partner and the love of my life, Pamela.
This production is directed by award-winning director, Tim Diering and features Pamela Battin-Sacks and Steven Sacks both whom have graced many stages from Boston to Portland.
When: April 25 – May 4, Fri/Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm
Tickets:: Tickets: Adults $25 Students/Seniors $20
Where: The Actors Studio: 1 Merrill Street, Crossroads Plaza, Salisbury, MA, 01952
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