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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: The Gin Game

Title:  The Gin Game
Playwright:  Coburn, D.L.  Publisher:  Samuel French, Inc.
Year  1977  Genre:  Other
Period:  20thC1970s  Number of Acts/Scenes  2
Passage of time:  2 weeks
Basic Plot:  (from script jacket) Two senior citizens meet at a retirement home. They get to know eachother by playing eachother in gin rummy and develop a love/hate relationship
Contributor's Name:  Tollefson/M. Cobourne
Contributor's Email:  not available
Budget:  $2200
Producing Organization:  UCF Conservatory Theatre
Cast Size As Written
  Male Actors:  1
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  1
Number of Characters as Written
  Male Characters:  1
  Male Chorus Characters:  0
Total Male Characters:  1
Costume Numbers as Written
  Male Costumes:  3
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  3
Actual Cast Size (if produced)
  Male Actors:  1
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  1
Costume Numbers (if produced)
  Male Costumes:  4
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  4
  Female Actors:  1
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  1
 
  Female Characters:  1
  Female Chorus Characters:  0
Total Female Characters:  1
 
  Female Costumes:  3
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  3

  Female Actors:  1
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  1
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  0
Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes:  New costumes are not required for each scene and can be repeated
Quick Changes:  If new costumes are required for each scene
Specialty/Special effects costumes required:  
Other important notes:  Both characters are elderly. The period may be updated.

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