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Dealer’s Choice Tickets – Donmar Warehouse 2025

Experience the high-stakes tension and razor-sharp wit of Patrick Marber’s award-winning comedy Dealer’s Choice in its thrilling 30th anniversary production.

Matthew Dunster (2:22 A Ghost Story) directs a stellar cast including Alfie Allen (SAS: Rogue Heroes, Game of Thrones), Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey, The Weir), Hammed Animashaun (The Wheel of Time), Theo Barklem-Biggs (SAS: Rogue Heroes, The End We Start From), Kasper Hilton-Hille (The Immortal Man), and Daniel Lapaine (Queen of Oz, Catastrophe, Muriel’s Wedding).

Step into the basement of a struggling London restaurant, where Stephen’s weekly poker game brings together the same familiar faces: the chef, the waiters, his errant son. But tonight, the game has a new player. As the cards are dealt and the bets placed, alliances shift, secrets unravel, and the stakes have never been higher. When everything is on the line, who will come out on top?

Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best West End Play, Dealer’s Choice debuted in 1995 and has since been performed worldwide.

Don’t miss this gripping new production at the Donmar Warehouse.

Dealer’s Choice runs from 18 April 2025 until 7 June 2025 at Donmar Warehouse, London

“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.

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Who is in the cast of Dealer's Choice?

Starring Alfie Allen as Frankie, Hammed Animashaun as Mugsy, Theo Barklem-Biggs as Sweeney, Brendan Coyle as Ash, Kasper Hilton-Hille as Carl and Daniel Lapaine Stephen.

Who are the creative team of Dealer's Choice?

Written by Patrick Marber.

Directed by Matthew Dunster with design by Moi Tran, lighting design by Sally Ferguson, and sound design by Holly Khan. Associate director Robyn Grant and casting by Lotte Hines CDG.

Venue Information

Donmar Warehouse , 41 Earlham Street, London, WC2H 9LX

Nearest Tube or Train: Leicester Square, Covent Garden

Nearest Buses: 14, 19, 24, 29, 38, 176, N5, N19, N20, N29, N38, N41, N279

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Critics' reviews of Dealer's Choice

★★★★★ "As brilliant as it is enduring" - The Stage

★★★★ "Marber’s poker drama still stirs the soul" - The Times

★★★★ "Marber’s portrait of male madness still hits home" - The Telegraph

★★★★ "Savagely comic study of male compulsion"- Evening Standard

Also see: Dealer's Choice Reviews Round-up

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