Discuss one or more of the ways in which the ways in which Dealer’s Choice represents reality deviates from a simple reproduction of real life, and explain how these contribute to it’s meaning as a play.

“Marber’s weakness is that he sometimes gambles on hands he shouldn’t.
People like Patrick and me, who play poker to escape the rest of our lives, tend occasionally to play too loose for the hell of it: It’s a chance to defy rules we’re not supposed to defy in other areas of life”

Replace ‘Marber’ and ‘Patrick’ in this quotation with ‘Mugsy’ or ‘Sweeney’ and you may well have a definitive reflection of two of the main protagonists in Marber’s first work Dealer’s Choice.
From this perspective, one could assume that the play serves as a self reflective documentary of Marber’s life , closer analysis proves otherwise. It is this analysis which shows us that this work is not simply a reflection of either Marber’s or general ‘real’ life; it does in fact deviate from this whilst still representing a reality. What follows is an attempt to highlight these deviances.
Dealer’s Choice is a naturalistic play, the characters serve as:

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