ABSTRACT

Glengarry Glen Ross is a very violent play: highly charged, vividly concentrated and bloody with verbal slaughter. This is Reservoir Dogs with filofaxes, The Wild Bunch with staplers. It is also the most perfect example of Marner's black comedies, satirizing the iniquitous back-biting mores of the times. Its violence resonates in every line, straining the boundaries of the printed page, spilling out in meticulously controlled arias of anxiety and pam c.