Thirty years after it first premièred in Melbourne by the Melbourne Theatre Company, David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross is coming back to the stage, this time with Alex Dimitriades in the role of Richard Roma.

The all male cast will be coached by director Alkinos Tsilimidos, who has just come off directing the Martin Luther King chronicle The Mountaintop.
The production, about the dog-eat-dog world of real estate, will fit in well with the current state of global economics.

The play, written in 1983, follows four real estate agents in Chicago who go to any lengths possible to sell undesirable real estate to unsuspecting buyers.
Dimitriades’ character, Richard Roma, is the best seller and smoothest talker of the lot. He uses his cunning talent to figure out a client’s weakness and uses it to exploit them into a questionable sale. Set in the head office of the agency, the four enter into a competition to see who can outsell the other, with the loser facing the axe.

Mamet is known for his thrilling power plays and scripts, penning the cult political film Wag the Dog and the eventual movie adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross in 1992 that starred Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin.

Glengarrry Glen Ross is set to open on July 4 and will run till August 9. Tickets are from $60. For more information visit www.mtc.com.au