Glengarry Glen Ross
Written by David Mamet
Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, John Getz and Richard Schiff
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About this audiobook
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.
David Mamet
David Mamet’s numerous plays include Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award), American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, Boston Marriage, November, Race, and The Anarchist. He wrote the screenplays for such films as The Verdict, The Untouchables, Ronin, and Wag the Dog, and has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. He has written and directed ten films, including Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, House of Games, Spartan, and Redbelt. In addition, he wrote the novels The Village, The Old Religion, Wilson, The Diary of a Porn Star, Chicago, and many books of nonfiction, including Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business; Theatre; Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama; and two New York Times bestsellers The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture and Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch. His HBO film Phil Spector, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, aired in 2013 and earned him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing. He was cocreator and executive producer of the CBS television show The Unit and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.
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Reviews for Glengarry Glen Ross
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very enjoyable version. Brilliant dialogue and story with a great pace.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greed, betrayal, and the American Dream in neoliberal America. Of course it interested me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not at all what I had expected (based solely on the title).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play listened to the script read by a single narrator (non-Dramatized). It won a Pulitzer many consider it important, probably would be better seen on stage with actors. Foul-mouthed real-estate salesmen recount becoming "like family" with customers, while revealing the salesmen true ugly selves back at the office. Based on Mamet's own experiences. Sort of a Kitchen Confidential but less appetizing. It seems dated even for 1984, these are 1950s and 60s concerns about masculinity and the soullessness of modernity. Then again it is sort of timeless.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Riveting stuff. The patter of Mamet's dialogue lends to tension, even if the scene may not warrant it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5"Death of a fuckin' salesman," they call it, and when I was a younger man that might have appealed but the fact is this is just death of a salesman with more fuckins, so who cares?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mamet is one of my favorite playwrights, I'm excited to work through more of his catalog.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Desperate real estate sales men go to any length to make a sale and earn a buck. I feel almost like this could have been a prequel to "Death of a Salesman." The dialogue is sharp and funny. It's a quick read, which I'm sure would be enhanced by seeing the film or seeing it on stage.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dedicated to Harold Pinter, Mamet's masterpiece is certainly the American version of the Britsh master's theater of malice. But where everything is innuendo in Pinter, in Mamet, it's exuberant and hammer-fisted. The play does not include the classic "always be closing" scene which gave Alec Baldwin his very best role in the movie version. And the movie took a few halting steps toward trying to make the two leading characters a bit more sympathetic. Nonetheless, this play is just this side of perfect in its ability to induce groans and guffaws in equal measure. And, in its own very dark way, it's a deeply spiritual experience as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5root beer floats. this is a play for the ages. he shows his class and his man points rise. a classic.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have seen this play before, but this is the first time I've read it. All I can say is that the play is best in its natural state - live, not on paper. Mamet's plays are difficult to "get" without the actors in front of you, and the dialogue can be increasingly impossible to follow. The plot itself, once unearthed, is always a rollicking good time, and this one was no exception.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A truthful look at American capitalism and male competitiveness.