Show me the money
A masterpiece of modern American drama, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, starts the summer season at Dublin’s Gate theatre this week. Set in a real-estate office where salesmen are pitched in battle to be top dog, the iconic play is a gripping fable about money, machismo, and the destructive impact of capitalism on human dignity. It won Mamet the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984. This revival features some of Ireland’s finest actors, among them Owen Roe and Denis Conway, and is directed by American Doug Hughes.
Hughes is a 2005 Tony-award winner for the Broadway smash hit Doubt. He is of Irish-American stock. His father, Barnard, was the son of Irish immigrants, and a well-known actor of stage and screen in America. Hughes’s mother, Helen Stenborg, was also an actress. She died last year.
