All-female production of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' to open at The Old Vic

Tony Award winner Patrick Marber (The Producers, Leopoldstadt) will direct a new staging of David Mamet’s play about four desperate real estate salesmen in Chicago who cheat, fight and steal to come out on top.

An all-female cast will bring Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross to life at The Old Vic this summer. Performances will run at the London venue from 4 June to 18 July.

Tony Award winner Patrick Marber (The Producers, Leopoldstadt) will direct a new staging of David Mamet’s play about four desperate real estate salesmen in Chicago who cheat, fight and steal to come out on top.

Marber said, "Around this time last year I had the good fortune to be directing Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway. It’s a heck of a play to work on; hilarious, profound, obscene – a thrilling story with twists that make an audience gasp. It was written in the 1980s but it seems to me to be about our world right now. I'm very excited to be doing it again, this time as a premiere with an all-female cast. And I am honoured to be making my directing debut at the famous Old Vic with Mamet’s mighty play."

Matthew Warchus, Artistic Director of The Old Vic, said, "Written in 1983, in the midst of Margaret Thatcher’s and Ronald Reagan’s radical shift to free-market capitalism, David Mamet's razor-sharp classic, Glengarry Glen Ross portrays the dog-eat-dog culture of a world driven by ruthless competition. I'm excited to see Patrick Marber bring fresh immediacy to this breathlessly gripping play, with an all-female cast revealing new resonances for audiences."

Cast is yet to be announced.

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Photo credit: Glengarry artwork. (Courtesy of The Old Vic)