Imagine a real estate office in Chicago in the 1980s. A competition has been announced to spur on the salesmen. The winner gets a Cadillac. The losers get fired. Normally ultra-competitive, now it’s no holds barred for these unscrupulous characters.

“This play is hyper-toxic masculinity,” observed Director Brett Marston. “It's about men in a competitive, cutthroat business, but the draw of this play is how beautifully crafted it is from a writing perspective. He’s written it almost like a musical. It's got an incredibly rhythmic pace to it.”

They talk over one another. They cut each other off. They curse each other out. It’s a hostile workplace on steroids, and ‘roid rage abounds.

“Every character has a significant grievance about something that's going on in their workplace, whether it

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