Glengarry Glen Ross

Synopsis

An unrelenting ride through the warped psyches of ageing, failing salesmen as they approach the ends of their careers, some sooner than they would like. The winner gets the Cadillac; the runner-up gets the steak knives; the other two get fired. These are men huddled together on the very edge, depending on each other yet trying desperately to be the last one to fall.

Our Review:

Glenn Meads - 17 March 2010

David Mamet's excellent play Glengarry Glen Ross was memorably made into into a film in 1992 staring Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin and Ed Harris. The performances are so wonderful that you cannot help comparing them to any subsequent stage production, as to me and many other cinemagoers, Lemmon is the down at heel salesman, Shelley "the machine" Levene.

It's a credit then to the Library Theatre's artistic director Chris Honer that he manages to coaxe memorable turns from his cast, which at the same time, do not blur into their movie incarnations. Glengarry Glen Ross follows a group of salesman who 'play' and manipulate not only their prospective customers, but also each other.

We watch in awe as Levene (David Fleeshman) attempts to grab one more moment of success, desperate for a great lead, teeth clenched in anticipation in this machismo filled dead end world ...

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