Word: mamet
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Written by acclaimed playwright and director David Mamet, Glengarry escorts us to Chicago-- the author's native city. The story revolves around a sales contest, initiated by the real estate agency at which all the characters are employed. The vicious competition that ensues culminates in crime and betrayal as the agents manipulate each other in a struggle to climb to the top of the office pecking order...
...quick, stop-and-go language and the equally rapid change of tactics behind each line. Glengarry Glen Ross follows in the playwright's tradition of plays such as Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Buffalo, famous for the fast-paced, in-your-face language that Mamet prefers to call "poetry" rather than realism. Ruiz directs his cast according to Mamet's concept of "practical aesthetics," which emphasizes intention and reaction. The actor's mind must work quickly, switching from one tactic to another in order to get what he wants. Although there are moments where...
...beauty of Glengarry is that Mamet presents his characters not merely as the machinations they often portray, but as people with feelings, families, and vulnerabilities that are shared and exploited. Here the character of James Lingk (Joe Gfaller '00), is essential. As a reluctant client of Roma's, Gfaller's uneasiness and pitiable entreaties serve to reveal the cruelty of the system and all its deception...
...Mamet, on the other hand, professed ignorance of Clinton's alleged problems...
Clinton returned the praise, commenting that Mamet's character is "very true to [the real] Henrietta...