Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross description

Glengarry Glen Ross is a 100% female revival of David Mamet's brilliant Pulitzer Prize winner.

Glengarry Glen Ross is on stage in London, in town after its critically acclaimed, sizzling sell-out 2025 Broadway season. Tony Award winning Patrick Marber, who delighted us with Leopoldstadt, makes his long-awaited directing debut at the Old Vic to create a brave new twist to the story.

The play premiered way back in 1983, quickly becoming a seriously influential piece of drama that thrilled a generation. This revival delivers a fresh new perspective on this contemporary Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, often described as 'explosive'. Most interesting of all, this is the first time it has been staged as a gripping all-female production.

As one of the 1900s' most influential plays, the story is all about the truth. The scene is a real estate office in Chicago, Illinois, where the employees are involved in a brutal competition to sell properties. The victor is in line to win an expensive Cadillac. The second place performer will win a set of steak knives. Everyone else will be fired. The four agents steal, fight and cheat to keep their jobs, all brought to fiery life by Mamet's famously sharp dialogue. Think merciless and you get the picture.

More than four decades after it was written, the play still acts as a potent expose of our extreme capitalist world where ruthlessness is the name of the game and morals are frequently compromised. The result is darkly funny, shocking and powerful, presented in-the-round for extra drama. This time around the Set and Costume designer is Rob Howell, with Lighting by Sally Ferguson, Props Supervision by Katie Saunders for Propworks, and Wigs, Hair and Make Up from Campbell Young Associates. Voice comes from Charlie Hughes-D'Aeth and Dialect from Danièle Lydon. Casting is by Helena Palmer CDG.

Glengarry Glen Ross tickets whisk you away to a smash-hit Broadway production, arriving in London thanks to overwhelming demand and on stage for a strictly limited season.

Playing at Old Vic Theatre

103 The Cut, London, SE1 8NB GB (venue info)

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