"The Gambler" is a characteristic tense intrigue. At the center of the action is roulette- like a game of chance, but also the game with life, as a way of living: people from various walks of life and positions gather around the roulette table, in the face of fate, the case, with a passion to challenge life and take risks in it. The atmosphere of the game is an atmosphere of sudden and rapid turning points of fate, rise and fall moment, with comic, but also tragic consequences in the lives of the characters. Dramatic speech in "The Gambler" is shown in his expression, vigor, detail in the utterance. The action is ready to stop at any moment, the characters are in constant crisis, on the threshold of a new life disaster. In an atmosphere of sharp collision, duality of the heroes' thoughts, as a result of a powerful internal, mental work, in the process of which the characters try to penetrate another's consciousness, to find out someone else's secret and influence other people's lives, a system of procedures is created, which often lead to unexpected results.

In "The Gambler" the motifs of the time are intertwined, the personal fate of Dostoevsky, the fate of Russia; Russia and the West: request of the "Russian form", which should curb the Russian element, to ennoble her, but also revealing an all-encompassing passion for the game, in the full sense of that term.

Olivera Pavlovic, playwright