The Old Vic presents David Mamet’s modern classic Glengarry Glen Ross, staged by Tony Award-winning director Patrick Marber (Closer, Leopoldstadt). Here are seven things you need to know about this production.
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Author The Old Vic
Published 17/04/2026
Everyone’s fighting for the same scraps
Four Chicago real estate agents. Two days. One list of ‘leads’ (potential customers) that could save — or end — their careers. Playwright David Mamet drops you into a world of hustle, manipulation and dark humour where every conversation is a transaction.
It’s a play about men… except this time, it isn’t
Glengarry Glen Ross is Mamet’s Pulitzer, Olivier and Tony Award-winning masterwork about desperate men doing desperate things to keep their careers alive, now with an all-female cast.
Actors have been doing this for decades
Glenda Jackson as King Lear. Harriet Walter as Henry IV. Marianne Elliott’s revival of Company. This production joins a lineage of theatre that uses gender to see classics through a new lens.
The dialogue is explosive
Overlapping and profanity-laced, this dialogue crackles, coerces and overawes.
These are roles actors dream about
From the magnetic Roma to the tragic Levene, Glengarry Glen Ross presents an ensemble of complex, flawed and utterly compelling characters.
It’s about more than selling land
Ambition. Masculinity. The cost of survival in a system that treats people as disposable. First performed at the National Theatre in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross feels more urgent now than ever.
It’s directed by Tony Award-winning Patrick Marber
Playwright, actor, director and screenwriter, Marber’s plays include Dealer’s Choice, Don Juan in Soho and Closer (which he adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film). His directing credits include Sir Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, for which he won a Best Direction Tony Award.
