Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet (1947- )[1].

The original text

The play explores two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts—from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary—to sell undesirable real estate to unwitting prospective buyers. The play draws partly on Mamet's experiences in a Chicago real estate office, where he worked briefly in the late 1960s. The title of the play comes from the names of two of the real estate developments, Glengarry Highlands and Glen Ross Farms, being peddled by the salesmen characters.

The world premiere was at the National Theatre in London on September 21, 1983 and it opened at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway on 25 March 1984, playing for 378 till 17 February 1985 .

The play text won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

Performance history in South Africa

1985: Produced by the Baxter Theatre, directed by Ken Leach, starring Victor Melleney, David Alcock, Ronald France, Gordon van Rooyen, Michael McGovern, Richard Farmer and John Dennison.

1985: Presented by PACT under Bobby Heaney’s direction at the Alexander Theatre, starring Anthony Fridjhon, Wilson Dunster, Bill Flynn, Dale Cutts, Peter Terry, Graham Hopkins and Graham Clarke.

2008: Presented by The Mechanicals in Cape Town starring Guy de Lancey, **

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarry_Glen_Ross

PACT theatre programme, 1985.

The Rand Daily Mail, 14 September 1984 (re PACT production 1985).

Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne 1988.

Wikipedia [2]

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

'Let's hear it for more of the same', IOL, 19 August 2008

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