'The Gin Game' review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, a duet of pros

"The Gin Game," which won D.L. Coburn a 1978 Pulitzer for what turned out to be his major work, comes from a decade when aging and other incurable inflictions filled American stages with a built-in dramatic crisis. For the reluctantly maturing baby boomers, these morbidity and mortality plays offered a jolt of momentary disbelief that, contrary to the spirit of the time, they would not always live forever.

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