House of Games
Author(s):
Based on the screenplay by David Mamet, story by David Mamet and Jonathan Katz, stage version by Richard Bean
Company:
Hampstead Theatre
What do you know about the world? You’re a voyeur. You write books, do this listening shit... Me, I hang out with these fellahs at the House of Games, and it’s so real I feel like I’m in a movie
Celebrated psychoanalyst and author Dr Margaret Ford has a new client. Billy needs help: he's addicted to sex, drugs and, most dangerously, gambling big money at an illicit poker lounge, the House of Games.
Dr Ford also happens to be in search of subject matter for her next bestseller—a search which takes her deep into Chicago's underworld and into the path of Mike, a charismatic gambler.
A complex game commences, in which even the players themselves don't know the rules, their roles, or who will be left holding the trump card...