Marber's first play (Dealer's Choice) was about a poker game and won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writer's Guild Award for Best West End Play. His second (Closer) about love, won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, the Critics Circle Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. The Broadway production won the 1999 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. His new play is a comedy about suicide. It completes a loose trilogy set in London at the turn of the century.