Glengarry Glen Ross
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...
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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.
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Format: Audio CD
ISBN:
9781580819367 (1580819362)
ASIN: 1580819362
Publish date: 2013-11-15
Publisher: LA Theatre Works
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
Book Club,
Read For School,
American,
20th Century,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Contemporary,
College
It turns out I was way off when I estimated I was 75% finished when I posted my earlier update today. I finished listening to this while I was still on the front porch, about to go out for today's run. So I must have been more like 99.99% done. Anyway, the ending made me feel a bit "meh." It wa...
I can see why some people love it, but this is a rare case where the movie was better.
I wrote my PhD on the films of David Mamet and I've read most of his plays (I haven't caught up with his most recent ones though). Glengarry Glen Ross is a great play. It has the well-known fast-paced dialogue of Mamet's plays (including the "f" word used very often) and a collection of characters t...
Unnecessarily ugly!David Mamet - Glengarry Glen Ross - BBC Radio 3 Drama 2005-03-20David Mamet's radio adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama in which Chicago real-estate salesmen grind out a living in a never-ending scramble for their share of the American dream. Richard Roma ........... Al...