Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice [Paperback]

Marber Plays: 1brings together three of this award-winning playwright's first plays produced at the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, London.


Dealer's Choicepremiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995Evening StandardAward 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


After Miss Julierelocates August Strindberg'sMiss Julie(1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first 'naturalistic tragedy' the events of Strindberg's original are transposed to the night of the British Labour Party's 'landslide' election victory.


Closer: 'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and inCloserhe has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williams'Streetcar, Mamet'sOleanna, Albee'sVirginia Woolf, Pinter'sOld Timesand Hare'sSkylight.'The Sunday Times

Three plays by multi-award winning playwright, Patrick Marber: an enthralling close-up of the demons which drive compulsive gamblers (Dealer's Choice); a reimagining of Strindberg'sMiss Julieset on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945,and inCloserone of the best plays about sexual politics in the language.Patrick Marberwas born inLondon. His first play,Dealer's Choice, (1995) won theEvening StandardAward for Best Comedy and the Writer's Guild Award for Best West End Play.Closerpremiered at the Royal National Theatre in May 19lC;