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My name is Richard Romer. Listen to what I'm going to tell you now
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The scenario for the beginning of the play is a sales competition. To see who can sell the most land within a given space of time
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The person who sells the most wins a Cadillac, the person who sells second most wins a set of steak knives
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and the two who sell the least lose their jobs. David Mamet, he's a kind of legend of theatre and film. I've been a huge fan of his for years
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And this is arguably one of his greatest works. It's a prize winner, is it
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Well, I play Ricky Roma, Richard Roma. So, at the moment, I'm the top man on the board there in the play
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And it's a very competitive atmosphere. I'm a good salesman, you know
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I'm seemingly doing quite well. But it's a very cutthroat environment. and these guys are all trying to outdo one another and get up there on the board
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It's a very competitive play. The Test Times is a fantastic play Yeah And I think brilliant writing just goes on and on and on It also a play for good acting as well My name Kiara Stevenson and I the second costume designer on Glengarry Glen Ross
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Creation process was a fun one. The mid-80s, there's a million films out there that document the period well, and it's not
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so long ago that you can talk to both my parents and most of my family about their memories
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of it. But there is, what's been interesting is there's a real difference between 1984, London and Chicago, two very different things
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It's about the dangers of individualism, which is ringing very much today
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Coming here to the West End, there's a level of appreciation and attention to detail
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I mean, you know, certainly in the first act of this play, it's a very, very, there's some very, very intimate, very quiet moments
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And you can just hear a pin drop in this theatre, which is very exciting
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a great listening audience. Great listening. Just really, really paying very, very close attention to detail here
