THE SLICK SALESMAN
ALBERT SCHULTZ
This is a restaging of the 2009 production. Why get the gang back together?
Well, if a production is that popular and if we can get everyone back together, we bring it back. And it’s also just so much fun to do.… This play is like a rock concert. You get to do the things you never get to say in life. Mamet’s text is so muscular and direct and, at times, shocking.
The subprime mortgage meltdown is old news now. Is a play about real estate scams coming a year too late?
I don’t think so. When we first did it … we were smack in the middle of Fannie Mae. But I think that the effects of that [event] are still very much alive in people’s minds and bank accounts.
If you could perform a love scene with any actress, ever, who would it be?
Ingrid Bergman. It would be the love scene from Casablanca. She’s so beautiful with her liquid eyes, and her performance was just so heartbreaking.
THE HAPLESS CLIENT
KEVIN BUNDY
Are you as gullible as your character? In other words, how many Slap Chops do you own?
I’ve never bought a Slap Chop. I leave that for my mother-in-law who has a room in her house just for knife sets, T-Fal pots and the Slap Chop. Really, she does.
What’s the best piece of advice the Big Three have given to you?
Eric Peterson: “Theatre is OK, but get yourself a TV series”; Albert Schultz: “Theatre is OK, but get yourself a TV series”; Peter Donaldson: “Theatre is OK, but get your wife to get a TV series.”
THE SALES MANAGER
JORDAN PETTLE
Rapid-fire round: Which of your co-stars is the best improviser? Eric. Mentor? All three. Practical joker? Albert. Party animal? Albert. Teddy bear? Pete.
What’s the toughest part of a Mamet play?
Playing with the specificity it needs at the speed it needs. It’s like playing great jazz really fast with a complex score, and yet it’s got to feel natural and free.
What’s it like to be onstage with these legends?
I go to acting school every night, in a sense. You work with great actors and your own acting has to step up.
THE CHEAT 
PETER DONALDSON
This is your third major play in two months. What’s the secret to your stamina?
Greed.
Do you borrow anything from Ed Harris, who played your character in the movie?
I try to steal everything I can from Ed Harris. I’d be a fool not to.
What does your wife Sheila McCarthy (of Little Mosque On the Prairie fame) think of the language of the play?
It’s nothing she doesn’t hear every day at home.
Worst part of working with this cast?
Having so few chances to work together.
THE HAS-BEEN
ERIC PETERSON
What does a gentleman such as yourself think of an expletive-filled script such as Mamet’s?
It’s wonderful stuff! Truth be known in theatre terms, it’s blue language; in real terms it’s probably toned down.
Your character is a bit curmudgeonly.Do you ever feel yourself slipping into Oscar from Corner Gas?
Well, I haven’t called anyone a jackass yet.
But you’re not ruling it out?
I’m not ruling it out. In a moment of tenseness, “jackass” might escape me. But that’s a pretty mellow word for a Mamet play.