What Is The Play Glengarry Glen Ross About?
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet is both an award winning play and screenplay. The play concerns a group o real estate salesmen who are selling tracts of ‘highly desirable vaguely-Celtic sounding land’, which are really just swamp land in Florida. At the beginning of the play, all of the salesmen have been told that there is going to be a shake up in the office. They are going to have a contest, first prize gets brand new car, second gets a set of steak knives and the rest of them will be fired. The rest of the play is concerned with the methods at how they try to inveigle and con their way to the best position on the board. One character tries to bribe the office manager, one tries to steal the sales leads and sell them on, another gives up completely, and one tries to do his job. The play is a stunning indictment of business practices within and without the sales game in America. Films in this vein are: Confidence, The Boiler Room and Matchstick Men.
