Fri 18 Apr 2025 - Sat 7 Jun 2025
DEALER'S CHOICE
BY PATRICK MARBER

DEALER'S CHOICE

BY PATRICK MARBER
Fri 18 Apr 2025 - Sat 7 Jun 2025

★★★★★ “A gripping production of a play that’s as brilliant as it is enduring… It still feels fresh and modern” The Stage

★★★★ “Marber’s brutal comedy remains a masterclass” The Telegraph

★★★★ “Patrick Marber’s sizzling comedy has acquired its own modern classic status” Financial Times

★★★★ “Urgent and captivating” Evening Standard

★★★★ “Matthew Dunster’s assured revival is a perfect match for the intimate dimensions of the Donmar Warehouse” The Times

★★★★ “A lean and thrilling beast” Time Out

★★★★ “What a blisteringly good play… beautifully cast" WhatsOnStage 


“Play the man, not the cards”

Sunday night. Stephen hosts a weekly poker game in the basement of his failing London restaurant. All the usual suspects are there; the chef, the waiters, the errant son…but tonight a stranger has come to play.

As the stakes get higher, the game turns savage…now no one’s safe when everything's on the line.

Patrick Marber's acclaimed 1995 debut won the Evening Standard Award (Best Comedy) and the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award (Best West End Play). It has since been performed in more than 50 cities across the world.

Matthew Dunster directs this 30th anniversary production starring Alfie Allen, Hammed Animashaun, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Brendan Coyle, Kasper Hilton-Hille and Daniel Lapaine.


We are hugely grateful to Charles Holloway OBE, Season Supporter.

We would also like to thank our Production Supporters, Charles J Burdick and Mo Fisher & Claude Keith and Tiina Lee. 

RUNNING TIME
2 hours 5 minutes including a 20 minute interval

Photography by Helen Murray 

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