Glengarry Glen Ross
An all-female cast lead David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Mamet's spiked-punchy dialogue, percussive and profane, is a magnet for actors
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Glengarry Glen Ross
An all-female cast lead David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece.
Why see Glengarry Glen Ross?
Always Be Closing
Legendary dramatist David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama is scheming its way back to London this summer, directed by Patrick Marber and featuring an all-female cast. Focusing on a group of real estate agents trying to get one over on each other to avoid a brutal firing, Glengarry Glen Ross is a razor-sharp and darkly comical deconstruction of the American Dream.
What Is The Story?
In a skeevy little real estate office in the depths of Chicago, four salespeople are thrown into desperate competition. Whichever of them can sell the most (terrible) property to some gullible customers will win a car. But the one who sells the least will be immediately fired. Faced with the prospect of unemployment, these people will do anything and everything to get ahead of the others - the knives are being sharpened, and any sense of morality is officially out the window.
Key Information
Audience
16+
Dates
4 Jun - 18 Jul
Upcoming Performances
Creative
- Written by David Mamet
- Directed by Patrick Marber
- Set and Costume by Rob Howell
- Lighting by Sally Ferguson
Reviews
Customer reviews
James Gay
A good treatment of the original scrpit
Having been a fan of the film based on this play from 35 years ago, I was
eager to see this revival, to experience it in London, in its original form.
Having Christian Slater cast as Roma seemed like a good choice and I was
unfamiliar with the rest of the cast.
My seats were in the stalls, H12, right in the center. Very nice view. The
playhouse is a nice facility and the acoustics are suited to the use.
Christian Slater, Stanley Townsend & Robert Glenister were quite good in
their roles and well-cast for these parts. Very enjoyable performances. In
contrast, Kris Marshall and Don Warrington turned in lackluster, unnatural
performances and seemed miscast in their roles. This tainted the
experience, for me.
The play has two settings, both well fleshed out, with an intermission
between. The change was well-executed.
In all, I would recommend this revived Mamet play for anyone who knows
the story or would find the world of Chicago real estate swindlers in the
1980s to be interesting. ... Read more
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