“This is a confidence game, not because you give me your confidence, but because I give you mine."

Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford is celebrated for her best selling book ‘Driven! Compulsion and Obsession in Every Day Life’. 

Stepping in to help one of her patients settle his gambling debts, she compromises her professional reputation and is drawn into the seedy underworld of the House of Games poker club.

Seduced by charismatic hustler Mike, Margaret convinces herself that she can make an academic study of the con. Before she realises it, Margaret is entangled in a fast-paced complex thriller. 

The renowned American author, playwright and screenwriter, David Mamet received the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross and Tony Award nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. As a screenwriter, he has been Oscar nominated for The Verdict and Wag the Dog. He wrote the screenplay for The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Untouchables.

Evening performances: 7.30pm
Wednesday matinees: 2.30pm on 20 Oct & 3 Nov
Saturday matinees: 3.00pm from 18 Sep

There will be no interval.