RISING DIRECTOR TACKLES GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS

Young Cast Does Mamet
at The Young Centre

RISING DIRECTOR TACKLES GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
Young Centre for the Performing Arts
Wednesday August 23 to Saturday August 26

Toronto, Ontario – For a limited engagement, Obstructed View Productions, under 20-year old theatre director and playwright Mitchell Cushman, presents Glengarry Glen Ross, featuring a cast of college-age actors in a masterful reinterpretation of David Mamet's most famous play. Performances begin August 23rd at the Young Centre in Toronto's historic Distillery District and run nightly through August 26th. The last performance date will include both matinee and evening shows.
 
Mitchell Cushman began his theatrical career as a co-op student with the Tarragon Theatre at age fifteen, during which time he wrote his first one-act play, Intermission. The play was later performed at the Tarragon's Paprika Festival. The next year he wrote the family comedy All Relative, which won the Wayne Fairhead New Play Award at the Sears Festival. In 2005, Cushman formed the Obstructed View Productions theatre company with several of his closest collaborators, which put on a double bill of Intermission and All Relative at the Tarragon, and sold out all performances.
 
Cushman reinterprets Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play by casting all the roles with actors in their early twenties. "By casting the show with young actors, the play is more accessible to those in their twenties and thirties who may not have much exposure to Mamet's work. Glengarry is about men in their forties and fifties working in a real estate office, but its themes are far more universal than that. Casting against age will show that capitalist competition and the stress and ruthlessness of the workplace don't just affect old men selling swampland in the '80s."
 
David Mamet's work is often heralded as the culmination of the dramatic movement started by Harold Pinter and Edward Albee. Glengarry Glen Ross is widely considered his masterpiece. In this dark drama, four real estate agents with high blood pressure and loose morals make their living selling Florida swampland to unsuspecting saps. They find themselves pitted against each other in the most cutthroat of sales contests; the winner will drive away in a new Cadillac and the loser will walk to the unemployment office. In a desperate attempt to get ahead, someone robs the office. But when men lie for a living, the case becomes the hardest deal to close.
 
Glengarry Glen Ross stars frequent Obstructed View collaborators Anthony Cushman, Aaron Feldman, Jonathan Grosz, Jonathan Linds, Simon McCamus, Andrew Morris and Daniel Rosen.

Glengarry Glen Ross runs at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts
from Wednesday August 23 to Saturday August 26

For tickets call: 416-866-8666