Real-estate salesmen selling swampland, Summer Theatre in Vancouver!
David Mamet’s celebrated 1984 real-estate themed play Glengarry Glen Ross opens this weekend in Vancouver.
The play centres around four back-stabbing real estate salesmen and their attempts to become top dog in the business world, peddling worthless lots of Florida swampland.
The Vancouver Sun has an interview with the play's star Will & Grace star Eric McCormack:
The rule is cast in stone: Summer theatre in Vancouver must be bright and breezy, or bums will simply not be planted in seats. Even the heaviest stuff from Shakespeare must take place in a seaside tent with a view of mountains and/or sailboats.
Enter Glengarry Glen Ross. David Mamet’s celebrated 1984 play is set in a Chicago real-estate office where shysters try to sell romantically named Florida swampland to suckers, and its extremely rough language is only one facet of a drama that’s dark as pitch.
So why was Arts Club Theatre artistic managing director Bill Millerd crazy enough to put Glengarry on the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage during the height of the heat that’s been in such short supply until now?
Enter Eric McCormack. Although he’s best known for eight TV seasons as the Will side of Will and Grace, McCormack is a Canadian actor who started on stage at Stratford and, after arriving in Vancouver in 1992, joined a tight circle of friends.
