 I'm here with Mark Young of DCU Drama discussing their forthcoming production of Glengarry Glen Ross. So Mark, tell me, what is Glengarry Glen Ross about? Well, Glengarry Glen Ross is a play written by David Mamet. You might know it because it was a popular movie starring Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemon. Essentially it's a play about real estate salesmen in the 1980s and it focuses mainly on one of the salesmen, Shelly Levine, who is kind of down in his look and is going to get fired at the end of the month if he can't sell. So it's kind of a story about desperation and competitiveness and generally it kind of deals with kind of masculinity in a way. So it's a very interesting watch. It kind of takes a swipe at kind of the civilized male. And tell me, does it resemble the film? Are the playing the film? Are they basically the same thing? Pretty much. I think the writer himself, David Mamet, was involved with the film. He wrote the screenplay. There are a few differences obviously. Personally I think when you adapt something from one medium like movies or books to another you can't have everything word for word. It just doesn't work like that. So it is slightly different. There is that very famous scene with Alec Baldwin going around like always be closing and everybody thinks that's in the play. It's not at all. I had loads of people coming in and being like, can I play Alec Baldwin's part? I was like, no, you can't. And have you, did you consider putting that in at any point or would you prefer to stay true to the play in its entirety? I was thinking about that but I think any kind of play buffs who saw that would kind of lynch me. I was thinking of, I probably will do something where we're going to be doing our promo next week. So I'll probably fit that in with the promo to get kind of people like their ears pricked so they kind of recognise it a bit more easily. Who is starring in the production? Will we know anybody from past shows? You probably would. Pretty much everyone on the cast has done DCU drama production before. We have a lot of guys who were involved in our production of Clockwork Orange last semester which is a big hit and it's actually an incredibly strong cast and very, very confident with them. Yeah, no, I'd say anybody who's been to a DC drama event before will probably recognise the faces, you know. Kind of the Vinnie Kenney's and the animal eyes. The old reliable, so to speak. The gingers and the pillow beards. I hear it's supposed to be an all male cast but I hear they actually have women in this production. We do, yeah. It has always been generally an all male cast because that's just how it was written. But what I wanted to do with my auditions was just to open it up and see what males or females can do and what they can bring to the table. In the end we only have, like now in our cast we have one girl involved which is playing quite a very much role made for a man. So like it's pretty much what I want to see is somebody make the role their own, you know, kind of go above gender although that sounds like something a feminist would say. It's an interesting dynamic, alright. So the film is known for its profanities. How much of that comes across in the play? Oh a lot. There's actually so much racism in the play. It's not even funny. They had to cut loads of that in the movie but it is interesting. The profanity, it's not excessive. That's one brilliant thing about David Mammoth's plays is that he doesn't, like he really knows how to use his efforts correctly in a sentence which some writers just can't do. But you know, he really uses them right and uses them to portray his actors, his current emotions and attitudes really well. And you're performing it in the space in the helix. That's right, space in the helix on the 13th of April. So how is that going to, how the space has three audiences or how are you going to reflect that through the actual production? It does. It's a difficult setting to put or a difficult set because we have to be very wary of, you know, there's always audiences on your left and your right rather than your front. So you have to be very careful when you're blocking it, you know, when I'm there in rehearsals because, you know, it's a lad's first. So for any actor, pretty much any amateur actor, their first instinct is to kind of turn their back when they're talking to somebody or something like that. So I've kind of been getting the lad's to plant their feet and make sure that they always have one face facing forth with the audience. It's a difficult, I mean it is a difficult set, but it also makes for a very personal experience which we're so lucky to be able to use. I know the space is a great, great venue. Excellent. Well, thanks very much, Mark. You'll be able to see Glenn Garry, Glenn Ross in the space in the helix on the 13th of April. 13th of April on Monday. Right. Right. Thanks very much, guys.