God Of Carnage  

November 4, 2009

Wednesday 2:00pm - 3:30pm

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God Of Carnage

"Never underestimate the pleasure of watching really good actors behaving terribly...highly skilled stage performers take on roles that allow them to rip the stuffing out of one another, tear up the scenery, stomp on their own vanity and have the time of their lives. And their performances ... incite the kind of laughter that comes from the gut, as involuntary as hiccups or belching."
Ben Brantley, New York Times

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children. A calm and rational debate between grown ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime?

Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden star in the US premiere of The God of Carnage, a new comedy by French playwright Yasmina Reza.

Daniels plays a lawyer and the father of a nine-year-old boy who has hit another child in the school playground. As a result, he and his wife are invited to the victim's parent's home to discuss the matter.

The masks (and the gloves) come off in this witty dissection of bourgeois values.

Creators
Matthew Warchus (Direction)
Written by: Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Set & Costume design by Mark Thompson
Lighting by Hugh Vanstone
Sound by Simon Baker & Chris Cronin
Music by Gay Yershon

Starring
Jeff Daniels as Alan
Hope Davis as Annette
James Gandolfini as Michael
Marcia Gay Harden as Veronica

Audience: God Of Carnage is inappropriate for children aged under 16 (strong language).  Children under 4 years of age will not be admitted into the Bernard B Jacobs Theater.