Glengarry Glen Ross Launches Season 26 At The Gamm, Opens Sept 2

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) opens Season 26 with Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about four unethical Chicago real estate agents embroiled in a ruthless contest to sell questionable investments to reluctant buyers. Inspired partly by Mamet's stint as a typist in a Chicago real estate office during the late 1960s, Glengarry Glen Ross is a scalding comedy-drama, driven by the playwright's trademark staccato and profanity-laced dialogue. With numerous awards to the stage play's credit, a 1992 film adaptation by Mamet further solidified Glengarry's place as one of the great masterpieces of 20th-century drama.

Gamm Resident Director FrEd Sullivan, Jr. (The Glass Menagerie, Much Ado About Nothing, Awake and Sing!) directs Gamm Resident Actor Sam Babbitt as down-on-his-luck veteran salesman Shelly "The Machine" Levene who is trying to convince the new office manager, Marc Dante Mancini as John Williamson, to give him the A+ leads. Rounding out the team are Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella as hot-shot salesman Ricky Roma, with frequent Gamm actors Tom Gleadow and Chuck Reifler as fellow agents Dave Moss and George Aaronow, equally desperate to close sales and save their jobs.

Glengarry Glen Ross runs from September 2 through October 3 at The Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange St., Pawtucket, RI. Tickets are $25, $30 and $40 (depending on day/time), preview and press performances (Sept. 2-7) only $25. Discounts for subscribers, groups of 10 or more, seniors and students. For tickets call 401-723-4266 or go to gammtheatre.org.

Play Synopsis
Scathingly funny, with a thrilling whodunit at its core, Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama exposes a dog-eat-dog world in which small-time real-estate brokers vie for the hot leads at a Chicago firm selling shoddy properties. With money, egos and jobs on the line, the cut-throat salesmen will stop at nothing to get their fair share of the American Dream. This gritty story of shifting values in the male-dominated workplace, revived on Broadway in 2005, is as potent and exhilarating as ever!

Also winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play (1983) and New York Drama Critics Award for Best New Play (1984).

Recommended for mature audiences only.

Gamm Artistic Director Tony Estrella says, "Glengarry is a dream project. It's a revolutionary piece of theater and one of the very best American plays of the 20th century. Mamet's language has the visceral power of machine gun fire and the savage grace of a puma. It's the stage-bound equivalent of a nature documentary...it's sell or be sold, the human beast in its habitat, the restaurant and the office, fighting to survive the Darwinian landscape of American business. It's a mystery in both form and content asking, "Who stole the leads?" and "What is a man?" In short, it's theatrical perfection. I can't wait."

The Times of Pawtucket is media sponsor of Glengarry Glen Ross.

About The Gamm Theatre
Founded in 1984 as Alias Stage, the non-profit Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre creates the finest of live theater, engaging the audience intensely in current and recurrent issues of consequence. The Gamm further serves the public with educational outreach programming designed to support the theatrical experience, and help sustain and enhance the intellectual and cultural life of its community. The Gamm is a member of New England Area Theatre (NEAT), a bargaining unit of the Actors Equity Association.

About this Production of GlenGarry Glenn Ross

By David Mamet
Directed by FrEd Sullivan, Jr.

Set Design by Patrick Lynch
Costume Design Marilyn Salvatore
Lighting Design by Matthew Terry
Sound Design by Kerry Callery
Technical Direction by Dade Veron
Stage Management by Kate Ferdinandi*

CAST
Shelly Levene, Sam Babbitt*
Richard Roma, Tony Estrella*
Dave Moss, Tom Gleadow*
John Williamson, Marc Dante Mancini
George Aaronow, Chuck Reifler
James Lingk, Kelby T. Akin*
Baylen, Richard Forbes

*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Props Master, Katryne Hecht; Dramaturge, Jennifer Madden; Assistant Stage Manager, Helen R. Brennan; Wardrobe Assistant, Emma Haney

CALENDAR OF PERFORMANCES
September
Thursday, Sept. 2, preview performance at 8 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 3, preview performance at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 4, preview performance at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 5, preview performance at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 7, press performance at 7 p.m.*
Thursday, Sept. 9, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Friday, Sept.10, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 11, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 12, matinee performance at 2 p.m.**
Sunday, Sept. 12, regular performance at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 15, regular performance at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 16, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 17, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 18, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 19, matinee performance at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 19, regular performance at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 22, regular performance at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 23, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 24, NO SHOW
Saturday, Sept. 25, matinee performance at 2 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 25, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 26, matinee performance at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 26, regular performance at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 29, regular performance at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 30, regular performance at 8 p.m.
October
Friday, Oct. 1, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 2, regular performance at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 3, matinee performance at 2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 3, regular performance at 7 p.m.

*Please note that press night is Tuesday, Sept. 7, due to the Labor Day Holiday.
**Followed by Shared Sundays discussion with artists & scholars. Show attendance not required. Open to the public at no charge.

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