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The fraught relationship between the sexes has dominated Patrick Marber’s later work but this, one of his earlier plays, concentrates on the failing of men (in particular the father/son dynamic) without any women.

Following huge critical acclaim plus a sold out season at The Menier Chocolate Factory, Dealers Choice transfers to The Trafalgar Studios in the West End. The relatively starry cast includes Samuel Barnett (the original Posner in The History Boys), Roger Lloyd Pack (Trigger in Only Fools and Horses; Owen in The Vicar of Dibley), Jay Simpson (Rome) and Ross Boatman (8 series of London’s Burning and incidentally a professional poker player).

The action centres around a group of restaurant workers who live for their weekly poker game. As the men struggle to deal with the cards they’ve been dealt, their affection for each other is almost eclipsed by their overzealous rivalry. Carl (Samuel Barnett) is between two fathers: his biological Dad, Stephen, the fastidious owner of the restaurant and Ash a professional poker player, who demands that Carl pays his enormous debts.

All of the acting is superb especially from Stephen Wright who plays the over optimistic but ultimately endearing Mugsy for which he won the Evening Standard’s most promising performer award and also Ross Boatman’s portrayal of the stereotypical lad about town suffering guilt following his estrangement from his child’s mother.

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