Toneelgroep Maastricht BV Real Estate

With BV Vastgoed, Toneelgroep Maastricht presents a contemporary adaptation of David Mamet's filmed classic Glengarry Glen Ross. Michel Sluysmans directs a top cast including Mark Rietman, Wendell Jaspers and Hanne Arendzen. Jibbe Willems makes a brand new translation of this black comedy in which people desperately fight for their jobs and existence in a world that revolves around money.

At the real estate agency BV Vastgoed, the employees are subjected to a sales contest by the management. The top two salespeople receive bonuses, and the rest are fired. This creates a battle in which only the strongest survive. In sharp, witty dialogue, Mamet outlines a desperate arena of people forced to be winners at the expense of losers. The play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and received rave reviews.

After the theatrical hits August: Oklahoma (2024) and The Cherry Garden (2023), Michel Sluysmans is once again directing a modern interpretation of a well-known theatrical classic. Mamet wrote his play in 1982, at the dawn of the neoliberal era. More than 40 years later, that era is on its last legs. In Jibbe Willems' translation, BV Vastgoed becomes a hilarious and wistful portrait of people stuck in a world they themselves helped create. A lonely world that revolves around money, an empty world in which selfishness is considered a prerequisite for success and altruism a weakness. For he who does not eat, is eaten.