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A Chick & A Dude Productions presents David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—a hard-hitting portrayal of cutthroat office politics—through sharp dialogue and strong social commentary.

The 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Glengarry Glen Ross, will be performed at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd Street.

The play runs Thursdays-Saturdays, February 23-March 10 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are “sliding scale”: Thursdays $10-20, Fridays-Saturdays $15-25.

For tickets/reservations, visit www.achickandadude.com, call (512) 921-4264 or email achickandadude@gmail.com.

The show is directed by Melissa Livingston-Weaver (2003 B. Iden Payne winner for Best Director of a Drama and 2011 B. Iden Payne nominee for Best Director of a Drama).

A dark dramatic comedy, Glengarry follows the lives of four smalltime, cutthroat real estate salesmen grinding out a living by pushing overpriced, undesirable plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their share of the American dream. Company big wigs Mitch and Murray declare a month-long ‘sales contest’. The top salesman wins a new Cadillac and the bottom two men lose it all—egos, money and their jobs. The four salesmen sweet-talk, plan, and scheme for the perfect client and the hot ‘Glengarry’ leads, which Mitch and Murray make clear are for ‘closers’ only. How far will the four go to get to the leads in order to schedule a ‘sit’ at the perfect victim’s residence?

Glengarry is partly informed by the playwright’s experiences working in a male-dominated Chicago real estate office in the late 1960s and contains the playwright’s trademark staccato and rough language. Many prestigious awards and a 1992 film adaptation by Mamet solidified Glengarry’s place as one of the great masterpieces of 20th century drama. Many feel Glengarry is Mamet at his best—writing with brute force—and may be more pertinent now as when it originally opened.

B. Iden Payne award nominee Tom Green plays Shelly “The Machine” Levene, an older, once thriving salesman who has fallen on difficult times. Top salesman Ricky Roma is played by Shanon Weaver, a 2005 FringeNYC™ Overall Excellence Award winner and 2003 B. Iden Payne Award winner. Aaron Black portrays George Aaronow, who lacks confidence in his sales skills. Robert L. Berry appears as John Williamson, the office manager, who the salesmen hate but need. Robert Deike plays Dave Moss, an angry loud mouth, and Christopher Loveless portrays James Lingk, a timid man who becomes Roma’s client. Baylen, played by Shawn Ferrell, is a police officer investigating an office break-in that the drives the plot.