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Chaincourt Theatre
Chaincourt Theater - Winter semester 2025/26 production
"Glengarry Glen Ross" by David Mamet
Wealth, Power, Success, and Survival
The Chaincourt Theatre Company brings to the stage David Mamet’s Glengarry
Glen Ross
How
far should one go to attain wealth and success?
Which values can be compromised in this pursuit? What measures can one take in a cut-throat
competitive, materially obsessed world?
Are these goals only to be obtained through a ruthlessly single-minded
attitude? These are some of the
questions playwright David Mamet confronts us with in Glengarry Glen Ross.
In
his play, four real-estate agents find themselves thrown into a fight for
survival over the course of one week by the owners of the agency in an attempt
to increase profits. The agent with the
most sales wins a Cadillac El Dorado; the one with the second most sales wins a
set of steak knives. The last two are
fired. The agents respond with a mix of
ambition, desperation, and morally questionable actions to keep their
jobs. In this way, David Mamet presents
us with an all-too-familiar contemporary working world and challenges us to
examine its existential value.
Born
in Chicago in 1947, David Mamet is a playwright, author, screenwriter, and
director. His play, Glengarry Glen
Ross won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984.
Mamet’s dialogue has been referred to as “Mametspeak”, a style of
script-writing which influences television and screenwriters to this day.
The Chaincourt Theatre Company is made up of students from various
faculties, alumni, and staff. It has
produced under this name since the mid-1990’s.
Before that, it went by IEAS Theatre.
Performances: Opening night on
January 30th 2026; additional performances on January 31st
as well as on February 5th, 6th, and 7th
(closing night). Curtain is at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: 10€ (general admission) and 5€
(reduced); tickets are only available at the box office one hour before curtain
(6:30 p.m.); no advance ticket sales.
Location:
Goethe University, Campus Westend, IG Farbenhaus-Nebengebäude, room NG 1.741
Contact: James Fisk (Artistic Director);
fisk@em.uni-frankfurt.de
