The prospect of an all-female cast version of David Mamet’s seminal drama of doomed masculinity and rampant capitalism Glengarry Glen Ross has been kicking around for a while now. Indeed, it was was even reported last year that the recent Broadway revival would flip the genders when the Kieran Culkin-led first cast departed.
For whatever reason that did not happen, but clearly director Patrick Marber is very sold on the idea, as he’s now staging an all female Glengarry Glen Ross at the Old Vic this summer.
The big question is, can you just flip the play and do it the same, and the answer is probably ‘no’, which may account for why it didn’t happen on Broadway and why this is technically a new production with a new creative team.
And, of course, a new cast: biggest name Indira Varma (pictured) will play Levene, the oldest person in a Chicago real estate office, a once formidable saleswoman fallen on hard times; US actor Rosa Salazar will play Roma, the sharklike, amoral saleswoman who leads the ensemble. They’ll be joined by Mercedes Bahleda, Nancy Crane, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Florence Odumosu and Niky Wardley.
How exactly it lands is TBC, but famously the nature of female workplace bullying can be very different to testosterone crazed ways of men and it’ll be fascinating to see if this revival can articulate that effectively.
Glengarry Glen Ross is at the Old Vic, Jun 4-Jul 18. Buy tickets here.
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