Stealing Leads: Women Read Glengarry Glen Ross at Ashby Stage

Ricky Roma. Shelly "The Machine" Levene. Moss. Aaronow. Williamson. Not to mention Mitch and Murray. The infamous real estate hustlers of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross have long represented the American male at his Darwinian nadir: desperate, backstabbing, criminal, and rather deft with the placement of a coital intensifier. Does the ruthless competition driving the play relate only to men, or has traditional casting denied this work its universality? In a taut staged reading by First Person Singular, seven of the Bay Area's finest female actors will deliver the answer. It may not be pretty.