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In the latest programme in the series dedicated to celebrating the great landmarks of our culture, Night Waves Landmarks discusses David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.

The play is about to be revived on Broadway. And as a new production starring Alfred Molina is broadcast on Radio 3, playwright Joe Penhall, director of the world premiere over 20 years ago Bill Bryden and Britain's authoritative voice on American theatre, Professor Chris Bigsby discuss why they consider this to be Mamet's masterpiece.

After Harold Pinter recommended it to the National Theatre it premiered there in 1983 and after opening on Broadway went on to win Mamet the Pulitzer Prize. But how has a play about ruthless salesmen, which seems so accurately to embody the decade in which it was written, fared 20 years later? And what is it about this play that makes it a bible for contemporary playwrights?

Join Paul Allen for Night Waves Landmarks at 9.30pm.






Presenter: Paul Allen
Producer: Kirsty Pope





Additional Information:



Glenn Garry Glenn Ross by David Mamet is available in bookshops

The film adapted by David Mamet is available on DVD and VHS

Radio 3 have a special David Mamet mini-season coming up in March. Hear an interview with David Mamet on the 15th March. Glengarry Glen Ross is on 20th March and is followed by his new play Faustus directed by Mamet himself on the 27th March.