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    Glengarry Glen Ross
    Glengarry Glen Ross
    Glengarry Glen Ross
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    Glengarry Glen Ross

    Written by David Mamet

    Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, John Getz and Richard Schiff

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    A group of low-ranking real-estate salesmen are trying to survive in a cut-throat office culture. But when two of them devise a plot to redress the company’s wrongs, the resulting turmoil increases the pressure to unbearable levels.

    A 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama.

    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

    Joe Mantegna as Ricky Roma
    Gordon Clapp as David Moss
    Kyle Colerider-Krugh as Detective Baylen
    Richard Dreyfuss as Shelly Levine
    John Getz as James Lingk
    Richard Schiff as George Aaronow
    Josh Stamberg as John Williamson

    Directed by Eric Simonson. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    ISBN9781580819374
    Author

    David Mamet

    David Mamet is one of the foremost American playwrights. He has won a Pulitzer prize and received Tony nominations for his plays, Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. His screenwriting credits include The Verdict and The Untouchables.

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    • 4/5
      Very enjoyable version. Brilliant dialogue and story with a great pace.
    • 4/5
      Greed, betrayal, and the American Dream in neoliberal America. Of course it interested me.
    • 4/5
      Not at all what I had expected (based solely on the title).
    • 3/5
      Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play listened to the script read by a single narrator (non-Dramatized). It won a Pulitzer many consider it important, probably would be better seen on stage with actors. Foul-mouthed real-estate salesmen recount becoming "like family" with customers, while revealing the salesmen true ugly selves back at the office. Based on Mamet's own experiences. Sort of a Kitchen Confidential but less appetizing. It seems dated even for 1984, these are 1950s and 60s concerns about masculinity and the soullessness of modernity. Then again it is sort of timeless.
    • 5/5
      Riveting stuff. The patter of Mamet's dialogue lends to tension, even if the scene may not warrant it.
    • 2/5
      "Death of a fuckin' salesman," they call it, and when I was a younger man that might have appealed but the fact is this is just death of a salesman with more fuckins, so who cares?
    • 5/5
      Mamet is one of my favorite playwrights, I'm excited to work through more of his catalog.
    • 3/5
      Desperate real estate sales men go to any length to make a sale and earn a buck. I feel almost like this could have been a prequel to "Death of a Salesman." The dialogue is sharp and funny. It's a quick read, which I'm sure would be enhanced by seeing the film or seeing it on stage.
    • 5/5
      Dedicated to Harold Pinter, Mamet's masterpiece is certainly the American version of the Britsh master's theater of malice. But where everything is innuendo in Pinter, in Mamet, it's exuberant and hammer-fisted. The play does not include the classic "always be closing" scene which gave Alec Baldwin his very best role in the movie version. And the movie took a few halting steps toward trying to make the two leading characters a bit more sympathetic. Nonetheless, this play is just this side of perfect in its ability to induce groans and guffaws in equal measure. And, in its own very dark way, it's a deeply spiritual experience as well.
    • 4/5
      root beer floats. this is a play for the ages. he shows his class and his man points rise. a classic.
    • 4/5
      I have seen this play before, but this is the first time I've read it. All I can say is that the play is best in its natural state - live, not on paper. Mamet's plays are difficult to "get" without the actors in front of you, and the dialogue can be increasingly impossible to follow. The plot itself, once unearthed, is always a rollicking good time, and this one was no exception.
    • 5/5
      A truthful look at American capitalism and male competitiveness.