--- product_id: 40140002 title: "Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice (Contemporary Dramatists)" brand: "patrick marber" price: "43029CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/40140002-marber-plays-1-after-miss-julie-closer-dealers-choice-contemporary store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice (Contemporary Dramatists) **Brand:** patrick marber **Price:** 43029CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice (Contemporary Dramatists) by patrick marber - **How much does it cost?** 43029CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/40140002-marber-plays-1-after-miss-julie-closer-dealers-choice-contemporary) ## Best For - patrick marber enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted patrick marber brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice (Contemporary Dramatists) ## Images ![Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice (Contemporary Dramatists) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41UcfVl7e1L.jpg) ![Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice (Contemporary Dramatists) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xiemJzDoL.jpg) ![Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice (Contemporary Dramatists) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/3133YyA7eGL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING THEATER *by D***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 8, 2015* In Dealer’s Choice, the first of the three plays in this outstanding collection, a bunch of stone gamblers and losers meet and play poker in the back room of the restaurant one of them owns. With one exception, they all know each other. The exception, Ash, knows the son of the restaurant owner. The son says Ash taught him how to gamble but if he did, he did a horrible job of it. The son is an inveterate loser, who plays hunches in place of odds and has fallen deeper and deeper into debt. The truth is he’s in the hole several thousand quid to Ash and some scary people up river from Ash are pressing for it. But the son has an answer to all his woes. lf his father lends him a couple thousand –it’s startup money, that’s all it is—he’ll put down a payment on an abandoned public toilet space in one of the worst sections of London and convert it into an upscale restaurant. Bob’s your uncle and the money will just flow in. There is a story line in this riveting play but it doesn’t develop linearly. Rather, it evolves out of the dialogue of these men, mostly about playing poker, poking out at places as the bantering of these feckless men goes on. Ray Winstone played one of the characters, a divorced cook, in its 1995 premiere in London. If you’ve admired Winstone in movies, you’ll recognize what kind of characters these are. They’re the kind that Ray Winstone would play.The second play, After Miss Julie, is a radical remake of Strindberg’s classic 1888 play, Miss Julie. Three characters, a cook and a chauffeur and Miss Julie, the spoiled and willful daughter of a wealthy English gentleman, country-estate style. The cook and the chauffeur are engaged, though not formally. Miss Julie has just been dumped by her fiancé who could no longer tolerate her abusing him. (She wants to be accepted and needs men’s desire but she needs to dominate men --she has a mammoth-sized Daddy issue-- and the fiancé refused to play S&M with her any longer.) She’s attracted by the chauffeur, and he by her, but more than that, she has to destroy any chance of happiness that exists between chauffeur and cook. And the chauffeur has to be seduced to her vision, not his own, even though she doesn’t have any clear picture of what will happen after she seduces him. What happens in that room, and in the bedroom nearby, is awful and what may happen to Miss Julie as the play ends may be worse.Closer was made into a movie, a quite good one, with an all-star cast (Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts, Clive Owen and Jude Law) and the script by Marber himself. Two men meet two women. They connect, break apart, almost connect again, can’t live connected and can’t tolerate their former partners connecting with anyone else. It’s a drama of intense dialogue, most of it just two people talking, a man and a woman, and the ending is …. exhaustion? an acceptance of what … less than happiness, more than aloneness. Love is a chimera in this play, which is cool on the surface, hot to the touch beneath. Don’t think love. Think possessiveness and momentary self-deception, because those seem more the emotions these lovers feel, both when they’re in a relationship and after it falls apart.All three plays are exceptional. Marber has a gift for teasing out the raw feelings that lie behind even casual conversation. There isn’t one person in any of these three plays I’d like to know personally but they are very real, and their issues and concerns are real too. Bravo, Patrick Marber! ### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars Print-on-demand Book: Buyers Beware *by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 16, 2017* The plays are undoubtedly excellent, and I enjoyed reading them. I decided to give three stars because what I received was a print-on-demand copy. The pages are bleached white and unpleasant to the eye. The covers are printed on low quality paper that curls up by itself.I understand that books that are not as popular have to rely on print-on-demand to even get to readers' hands, but I think it is misleading and borderline fraudulent to not mention that on the product page or reduce the price. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Patrick Marber - Closer *by M***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2014* An impressive, finely crafted, pained and beautiful theatre text. Somehow Marber manages to synthesize high style and realism into brutal intimacy. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/40140002-marber-plays-1-after-miss-julie-closer-dealers-choice-contemporary](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/40140002-marber-plays-1-after-miss-julie-closer-dealers-choice-contemporary) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-09-23*