Dealer's Choice (Modern Classics)

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Paperback
1997
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Dealer's Choice premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play. 'An exceptionally accomplished first play ...though I know nothing about poker, I testify to the compulsive grip this play exerts and to the accumulation of meanings it ignites in your head.' Financial Times 'Patrick Marber's enthralling close-up of the demons which drive compulsive gamblers is among the finest new plays in many a year.' Daily Mail

Synopsis

Dealer's Choice premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play. 'An exceptionally accomplished first play ...though I know nothing about poker, I testify to the compulsive grip this play exerts and to the accumulation of meanings it ignites in your head.' Financial Times 'Patrick Marber's enthralling close-up of the demons which drive compulsive gamblers is among the finest new plays in many a year.' Daily Mail

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Edition: New Edition - New ed
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 27 Jan 1997
ISBN 10: 041371490X
ISBN 13: 9780413714909
Book Overview: 'Patrick Marber's enthralling close-up of the demons which drive compulsive gamblers is among the finest new plays in many a year.' Daily Mail It won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play 'An exceptionally accomplished first play ... though I know nothing about poker, I testify to the compulsive grip this play exerts and to the accumulation of meanings it ignites in your head.' Financial Times

Media Reviews

Unmissably good. Daily Telegraph, Dominic Cavendish, 14/12/2007 Provides a tensely gripping portrait of male camaraderie, compulsive obsession, self-destructiveness, parental responsibility and thwarted dreams. Sunday Express, Mark Shenton, 16/12/2007

Author Bio

Patrick Marber was born in London. Dealer's Choice is his first play. It won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writers' Guild Award for Best West End Play. He has also written extensively for television and radio, including After Miss Julie (BBC Television, 1995).