Our 2009 Production:

Directed by John Rensenhouse

With every successive season we have employed the finest of Kansas City’s theatre artists and artisans, and have unfailingly delivered smart, unique and moving productions. Productions which focus squarely on the playwright, the actor, and powerful storytelling.

It is in that tradition that we offer our next production, a scalding comedy about power, manipulation and Florida real estate: David Mamet’s classic Glengarry Glen Ross.

David Mamet is the author of some of the best-known and most important plays in American theatre, such as American Buffalo, Oleanna and Speed-the-Plow. Throughout his work he has proven himself a master at scripting stories filled with deception, crime and plot-twists. And tying it all together is dialogue written with an acute ear for language and its use in scrabbling for power. As Ben Brantley wrote in the New York Times, “Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still unsurpassed by any other dramatist.”

Glengarry Glen Ross, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, is Mamet at the top of his game. The Times’ Frank Rich writes, “…Crackling tension…ferocious comedy and drama. A top American playwright in bristling form.”

And true to our form, the seven actors who will be playing this group of shabby, strutting salesmen will be culled from the very best Kansas City has to offer. We have no doubt that ATKC’s production of Glengarry Glen Ross will provide a funny, powerful, high-octane evening at the theatre.

Previews July 30-August 4, 2009
Opens August 5, 2009
Closes August 16, 2009