2025-02-25
15 分钟Hi, my name is Jason Zinneman.
I'm a critic at large for the New York Times.
I have a long history with Glengarry Glen Ross.
The play,
maybe the first pan I ever wrote was of a college production which led the director of that play to tell a friend of mine
that he wanted to beat me up.
And I felt like that was the moment when I became a critic,
when I heard
that they were putting on a new production of Glengarry Lynn Ross with the comedian Bill Burr.
In a way, it was a worlds collide because I'm a lifelong theater lover who covers comedy.
And so here you have one of the most successful standup comedians
in America making his professional theater debut in one of my favorite plays.
This struck me right away as an interesting moment to profile Bill Burr,
and I'll be reading that profile for you in a moment.
Glengarry Glen Ross is a play about the these competitive, trash talking men.
It's a play that, you know,
has incredibly vivid and exciting language that feels very real and very stylized.
The salesmen
in the play are kind of a microcosm of a certain kind of Darwinian capitalism that still resonates
with our current moment.