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Full-Length Play, Drama / 6m
Patrick Marber
Five work colleagues meet regularly on Sunday nights to play poker. What drives them? Money? Competition? Desperation?
Nominee: 2008 Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Play Winner! 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy Winner! 1995 Writers' Guild Award for Best West End Play
Stephen, a restaurateur, has a weekly poker game in the basement. The'stakes are high and the waiters often lose their paycheques. Stephen's son, Carl, is an obsessive gambler who has run up debts and when Ash, a professional gambler, threatens to kill Carl if he doesn't pay the 4000 he owes, Carl arranges for him to play in the weekly game. But Stephen can'spot a professional and confron's Ash who asks where Carl acquired his addiction. Who is the real addict, Carl or Stephen?
M6 (20s-50s)
A kitchen, restaurant, basement
“A swaggering comedy.” – The Guardian
“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