Glengarry Glen Ross (Student Editions) - Hardcover

Wertenbaker, Timberlake

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474261310 ISBN 13: 9781474261319

Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

Synopsis

A student edition of Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play

First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992.

""""The finest American playwright of his generation"""" Sunday Times

""""A chillingly funny indictment of a world in which you are what you sell"""" Guardian

""""Nobody alive writes better American...Here at last, carving characters out of language, is a play with real muscle"""" Observer

""""David Mamet, screenwriter of The Verdict and The Postman Always Rings Twice, is alongside Sam Shepard and Michael Weller, one of the most distinctive voices on the contemporary American stage"""" Michael Coveney, Financial Times

About this title

Review:

The finest American playwright of his generation --Sunday Times

A chillingly funny indictment of a world in which you are what you sell --Guardian

David Mamet, screenwriter of The Verdict and The Postman Always Rings Twice, is alongside Sam Shepard and Michael Weller, one of the most distinctive voices on the contemporary American stage Michael Coveney, Financial Times Nobody alive writes better American...Here at last, carving characters out of language, is a play with real muscle --Observer

About the Author:

David Mamet (b. 1947) is an award-winning American playwright and screenwriter. His first and many subsequent plays were first performed by the St Nicholas Theatre company, Chicago, of which he was a founding member and Artistic Director. In 1978 he became Associate Artistic Director of the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, where American Buffalo had been first staged in 1975, subsequently winning an Obie Award and opening on Broadway in 1977 and at the National Theatre, London, in 1978. His greatest hits, Glengarry Glen Ross and Oleanna, followed in 1983 and 1993 respectively. Other works by Mamet published by Methuen Drama include David Mamet Collected Plays 1-4; American Buffalo; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Duck Variations; A Life in the Theatre; Edmond; The Cryptogram; Reunion; The Woods; The Water Engine; Lakeboat; The Disappearance of the Jews; Speed-the-Plow; Three Uses of the Knife, and Dr. Faustus.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1474261310
• ISBN 13: 9781474261319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144