About the Play
Comedy. 54-64 minutes. 7 any gender. Suitable for middle school and older.
Performed by Colfax Theatre (Minneapolis, MN) as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival at the Mixed Blood Theatre.
The author grants productions pre-approval to make cuts to meet time limits and community standards regarding profanity and obscenity for Texas UIL and other one-act competitions.
Synopsis
Mamet's classic tale of cutthroat real estate salesmen gets a darkly comic reboot in this parody that goes back to the source, Glenn Ross Academy, a private school for pre-teen overachievers. As students fight for their place on "the Board" amid peer pressure and stratospheric family expectations, they learn to do whatever it takes to compete. And if the constant manipulation and shifting alliances weren't enough, just wait until the questions to an all-important standardized test go missing and the finger pointing begins...