Glengarry Glen Ross Tickets

Everyone thinks they know Glengarry Glen Ross (Old Vic), David Mamet’s famous play about four real estate salesmen competing to achieve the most sales and win a Cadillac. Whoever comes second will get a set of steak knives, but the pair who come last will lose their jobs. The twist in this revival—directed by Patrick Marber—is that the gender of those making the sales is flipped: they will all be played by women. It’s an intriguing idea, particularly with the all-female cast led by Indira Varma and Rosa Salazar. The test will be whether Mamet’s play—often read as a study of competitive masculinity and male one-upmanship in which everyone, including women, is ripe for exploitation—remains a compelling indictment of frontier attitudes and the American Dream. Mind you, in the era of Selling Sunset, we all know that women can be every bit as ruthless as men.  This week the RSC pitches up at the Kiln with Driftwood, a new play by Martina Laird, best known to date as an actor. But that might be about to change. The runner-up in the Verity Bargate Award and subsequently picked by the RSC, Driftwood is set in Trinidad in 1956 in a gentleman’s club where everyone is vying to make a future for themselves. But with political change in the air, the chains of history and colonialism are hard to break, and playing to win has consequences. 

Rosa Salazar and Indira Varma lead the cast of the Old Vic’s upcoming production of Glengarry Glen Ross, with Patrick Marber directing a new all-female interpretation of David Mamet’s acclaimed play. Salazar will take on the role of Roma, while Varma plays Levene. They are joined by Mercedes Bahleda as Lingk, Nancy Crane as Aaronow, Dorothea Myer-Bennett as Williamson, Florence Odumosu as Baylen and Niky Wardley as Moss, completing the ensemble.

February is just around the corner, and before you start to worry about what to do for Valentine’s Day take a look at which shows you need to see before they leave us.

Lies. Greed. Corruption. It’s all business as usual for a limited 14 weeks at London’s Playhouse Theatre. Glengarry Glen Ross is the timeless Mamet drama that spawned the 1992 American classic film directed by Sam Yates. It takes place in Chicago, focusing on four alpha- male salesmen who are willing to go to any length to get real estate sales. It’s a high-stakes, cutthroat competition, with a fight to the end. But how far are they willing to go to close the most deals and get ahead of the other?

Hollywood star Christian Slater (Mr. Robot, Interview with the Vampire, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) is returning to London's West End in classic Mamet drama Glengarry Glen Ross.