David Mamet e Glengarry Glen Ross

Dear Students

This interview with Mamet is a good introduction to his views on what a play should do. watch it ans associate it with the language and rythm of Glengarry.

Now for Glengarry.

Here you can see a scene that Mamet wrote for the film adaptation of the play, where the man from head office explains the challenge- be first on the sales contest of the month because if you are last you are fired, We will discuss theb function of this new scene in class.

In this clip you have a summary of the film version with several short scenes.Richard Roma, interpreted by Al Pacino makes his speech to the client to whom he wants to sell property, James Lingk

In this clip Moss and Aronov are "talking" about the idea od stealing the leads and sell them to a competitor. Watch the way the language works here (it is repeated for effect in this cut.

Away from the film, see how actors and directors talk about the play and their roles.

And again an actor who plays Shelley Levene in the same production talks about his role.