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Deeper Look: Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross

Bagley Wright Theatre
Glengarry Glen Ross
By David Mamet
Directed by Wilson Milam
February 5 - 28, 2010
Running Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes with one intermission

 
 
 

Deeper Look

Actor John Aylward on Glengarry Glen Ross
In the world of live theatre, take two is not something performers get very often. But when John Aylward takes the stage as Shelly Levine in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at Seattle Rep this February, he'll be revisiting a role he first played more than two decades ago. Read More...

Designing Glengarry Glen Ross: Acclaimed designer Eugene Lee brings 1980s Chicago to the stage
Eugene Lee designed sets for the original Broadway productions of Sweeney Todd and Wicked, and he has been involved in the design of Saturday Night Live since the shows inception. He returns to the Rep following his success with last season's The Seafarer to bring the shady real estate offices of Glengarry to life. Read More...

David Mamet and the Art of the Con
While Glengarry Glen Ross may not be as steeped in blatant fraud as some of Mamet's other works, the real estate salesmen portrayed in the piece aren't the well-intentioned ReMax agents who might have sold you your house. Read More...

Get Rich Quick: From 1970's Florida to Ocean Shores in 2008, scamming home buyers is nothing new
Though the Florida land scheme fraud is the one David Mamet chooses to feature in the plot of Glengarry Glen Ross, the plotters who unethically and illegally profited off of Florida swampland are just a handful of the con artists dotted throughout American history who used real estate fraud to get rich quick. Read More...