David Mamet’s play depicts two days in the lives of four American real estate salesmen with their underhanded and dubious tactics used in making sales.

The first act, through a trio of duologues, introduces the salesmen and reveals their motivations, ambitions and fears whilst in the second half we witness the aftermath of a robbery at their office and the effect it has on all their futures.

The intimacy of the Rialto is used to good effect by director, Roger Kay who allows the audience to be drawn in by moving some of the action through them. The staging is simple and does not detract from the power of Mamet’s words, albeit most of them are expletives.

Kay has assembled a strong cast who masterly cope with the Pinter like speech patterns. Together they provide high quality ensemble playing, yet singularly each gets a turn to shine.

It will be a long time before the memory fades of John Tolputt’s Levene, a man in a run of bad luck desperate to climb back to the big time - or Steve Chusak’s smoothly reptilian, cocksure top salesman Roma.

In contrast Robert Cohen fully captures the edgy neuroses of another potential loser.