An all-female production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at London's Old Vic (one of Britain's most prominent theatres) has prompted fresh scrutiny of a play long considered a defining portrait of male competition and aggression. Written in 1983 and set in a cutthroat Chicago real-estate office, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama was staged with an entirely female cast but with no changes to names, pronouns, or language — leaving intact references to 'balls' and homophobic slurs. Rather than updating the characters, the production forces audiences to confront what it means when women perform roles originally conceived as expressions of male identity, revealing how little the workplace pressures Mamet depicted — precarious employment, impossible targets, and ruthless competition — have diminished in the decades since.