David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross
Subtitle: Text and Performance (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780815318774
Subjects: Cultural studies; Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Theatre, drama; Mamet, David - Plays & Criticism; Plays / Drama; American English; English; USA; American; Theater - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Mamet, David; Glengarry Glen Ross; Mamet, David.
First sentence: The detective story in Glengarry Glen Ross is literally marginalized: the office break-in occurs in the interval between the play's two acts, and the investigation in act 2 is conducted in a room off-stage by a detective who barely appears.