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Dealer's Choice, Donmar Warehouse review - fresh take on a classic about male self-destruction

by Helen Hawkins

An ideal revisiting of Patrick Marber's play about risking all to move ahead Patrick Marber's powerful debut about gambling men is 30 years old, born as the Eighties entrepreneurial boom was starting to sour but before poker become a game for mathematical whizz kids. What it reveals as it maps the male psyche seems as pertinent as ever. 

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 9:24am on April 29, 2025