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Glengarry Glen Ross
- by David Mamet
review in SF Bay Times by Jeff Smith
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- Teatro Shalom is currently presenting David Mamet's dark comedy Glengarry
Glen Ross at the Exit Theatre. Intimate but powerful theatre at its
best, the play depicts cutthroat marketplace morality at its worst. If
you have never seen one of the frequently produced stagings of this Pulitzer
Prize-winning drama, or its all-star movie version, David Gassner's production
is a must.
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- Four fast-talking real estate salesmen make a career of conning their
clients, their fellow
- salesmen, and themselves as they bilk retirees and working class rubes
out of their disposable incomes and retirement savings in exchange for
land parcels which may be waist deep in duck weed, bull rushes, and water
hyacinths or wind blown cactus plantations.
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- Shelley Levene, superbly performed by Sal Bovoso, is an on-the-ropes,
fading-fast salesman who sustains himself by impressing the office staff
with his past sales records. Desperate to break a protracted losing streak
and "get on the board," he is conned into robbing the sales office
of its coveted client leads. David Acevedo as Roma, the fast-talking, hot-shot
golden boy of the office and Lol Levy as Moss, the disgruntled instigator
of the theft, are particularly adept at plumbing Mamet's broken fragments
of obscenity-laced dialogue. Ron Obregon's brusque detective is a force
to be reckoned with.
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- Rich with irony and metaphor, the play is a devastating illustration
of the addictive nature of a random reward system in which a few winning
pay-offs are enough to keep a fraternity of hustlers hooked on the art
of the con. Pared down staging, brisk pacing, and an impressive reading
of Mamet's cutting edge script by the seven actors distinguish this dog-devouring-dog
morality tale.
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- Glengarry Glen Ross continues Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 pm, through July
31 at
the Exit Theatre. Call 415/602-4387.
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