GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
BY DAVID MAMET
16 MARCH – 10 APRIL 2021
“I’m selling something they don’t even want.”
Lies. Greed. Corruption. It’s business as usual in the cut-throat world of real estate sales.
This pack of wolves will do anything to score the prime ‘leads’. They’re grinding out a living pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their share of the American dream.
From lies to flattery, to bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary: as their desperation reaches fever-pitch they will engage in unethical, even illegal, behaviour if it’ll snag them a sale and that all-important commission.
The mantra is simple: Close the deal and you’ve won a Cadillac; blow the lead and you’re f****d.
David Mamet’s lacerating satire won the 1983 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was later adapted by the playwright into a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino.
Originally written for an all-male cast, this production will blur the gender lines to reveal startling and unexpected insights into Mamet’s depiction of blunt, brutal, toxic masculinity. As relevant now as it was three decades ago, this brilliant, scathing comedy, infused with humanity and honesty, will provoke both laughter and chills in anyone who’s ever questioned unbridled capitalism. Never forget: Trump started out in real-estate!
“David Mamet is the most unsparing eviscerator of the American Dream since Arthur Miller.” The Telegraph, UK
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Feedback/Comments
I was keen to see a stage production of Glengarry Glen Ross after only seeing the movie but I was shocked by the play. It exposes the ugly reality of capitalism and what greed does to people. The production was fine enough and it's worth seeing if only to be reminded of what drives the capitalist system.
Updated production through the use of a gender diverse cast. Despite this nothing has changed in toxic workplaces