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Mamet’s funny kind of sales pitch
LYNNE WALSH sees a top-drawer cast triumph in the US dramatist’s scabrous depiction of a desperate salesman on the make

WHO’D have imagined that an evening in the company of a set of alpha males could be so joyous?

The Playhouse revival of David Mamet’s barnstormer Glengarry Glen Ross is a belter.

From curtain up, with Stanley Townsend’s defiant Shelly Levene, we’re in safe hands in this dissection of desperate salesmen schmoozing and hustling their clients — and one another — accompanied by the torrent of abuse that’s the lingua franca of their shady business.

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