Kathryn Hahn is in demand, from HBO and Apple TV+ lead roles to hilarious David Mamet spoof with her family

With theatres shut for the foreseeable future, the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has been offering virtual content each week under the banner “Geffen Stayhouse”.

One of the more hilarious contributions comes courtesy of actress Kathryn Hahn, who has reimagined an excerpt from David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross (along with her children and husband Ethan Sandler) as performed by American Girl dolls, giving a wonderfully surreal and comical spin to Mamet’s effusive profanity (carefully beeped in the video).

Watching the three-plus minute clip, you realise you haven’t really seen Glengarry Glen Ross until you’ve seen two dolls bark at each other: “Go to lunch, George!” “I don’t want to go to lunch!” “Just go to lunch, George!”

“Listen, anything to give support to theatre, which has obviously been suffering,” Hahn says, laughing. “It was so silly and small. My friend Matt Shakman, who runs the theatre, was asking for participants and I knew I wanted to enlist the whole family in some way, but not show faces. And the idea just came to us [laughs] and made us giggle and we did it in such a short amount of time. It’s hilarious, we had a very reluctant 13-year-old cameraman, our son, behind it.”

Coming off last autumn’s starring role in the critically acclaimed HBO series Mrs. Fletcher, Hahn can be seen currently in the miniseries adaptation of the Wally Lamb novel I Know This Much Is True (also for HBO) as well as the upcoming Apple TV+ animated musical comedy Central Park.