Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1984 play by David Mamet which won a Pulitzer and numerous Tony Awards. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in numerous unethical and/or illegal acts ranging from lies and flattery to bribery, threats and intimidation and even burglary in order to sell undesirable real estate to unwilling prospective buyers. The play draws partly on Mamet's experiences of life in a Chicago real estate office, where he worked briefly as a typist in the late 1960s. The title of the play comes from the names of two of the real estate developments being peddled by the salesmen characters.