<DIV><I>Marber Plays: 1 </I>brings together three of this award-winning playwright's first plays produced at the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, London. </DIV><br><DIV><BR><I>Dealer's Choice</I> premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 <I>Evening Standard </I>Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play.</DIV><br><DIV>'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.' <I>Financial Times</I></DIV><I></I><br><DIV><BR><I>After Miss Julie </I>relocates August Strindberg's <I>Miss Julie </I>(1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first 'naturalistic tragedy' the events of Strindberg's original are transposed to the night of the British Labour Party's 'landslide' election victory.</DIV><br><DIV><BR><I>Closer</I>: 'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in <I>Closer </I>he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williams' <I>Streetcar</I>, Mamet's <I>Oleanna</I>, Albee's <I>Virginia Woolf</I>, Pinter's <I>Old Times </I>and Hare's <I>Skylight</I>.' <I>The Sunday Times</I></DIV>