As I was gearing up to write this review on The Classics Theatre Project’s Glengarry Glen Ross – ok, I ran behind, I admit it – I caught Theatre Arlington’s I’m Proud of You in the meantime. Perhaps this was a fortuitous sequence of events, because the two both present vastly different sides of the masculine-male presenting experience. In one, the men are aggressive, steely and power hungry. The other showed the tender friendship that grew between two men over the course of years.
Both left memorable impressions.
TCTP opened David Mamet’s Glengarry on Aug. 1 at The Stone Cottage in Addison. The comic-tragedy centered on four real estate agents of varied tenure and ages who resort to unethical practices to secure a name on the office chalkboard as the top earner that wins a new car.
Dire