Winners And Losers

Is Kanye West a winner or a loser? What about the Berlin Wall? Or goat cheese? Old friends Marcus and Jamie spare nothing and no one in a seemingly harmless drinking game that separates the champions from the chumps. But what begins as a playful exercise slowly reveals itself as a dangerous unpacking of privilege, status symbols, and class divisions.

Winners and Losers, a “frisky theatrical symposium” (Time Out NY) from Canadian theatre artists James Long and Marcus Youssef, blurs the line between real life and fiction, the personal and the political, admiration and resentment. Nothing is as wildly fun or as ruthlessly biting as friendly competition.