David Mamet’s property-conners in Glengarry Glen Ross represent the next mutation of capitalism after Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman – and the progression of American politics: the play was provoked by the red-meat economics of Ronald Reagan, which have subsequently been reheated by George W. Bush, and now President Trump.
16 November 2017, The Tablet
Mamet's 1983 play about property sharks retains its economic relevance
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