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Review: Yasmina Reza's 'God of Carnage'
Two children get into a playground fight and their parents decide to meet to talk things through. The two middle class couples politely discuss their sons’ behaviour over coffee and clafoutis.
But soon their bourgeois façade begins to crumble. The conversation starts spiraling out of control when one of the guests throws up all over the coffee table.
Slowly and steadily, the adults turn into children themselves, and through shouting matches and temper tantrums (and aided by a significant amount of rum), their underlying hypocrisy is exposed. The thin veneer of civility is shattered and their suppressed frustrations and latent unhappiness are brought to the fore.
Big shoes to fill
French playwright Yasmina Reza’s satirical comedy God of Carnage premiered in Switzerland in 2006.
In the English (or rather, American) translation by Christopher Hampton, the play went on to win both a Laurence Olivier Award and a Tony Award for b
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Review: God Of Carnage - A Show That’ll Be Sure To Thoroughly Please And Entertain
God of Carnage, written by French playwright Yasmina Reza and published in 2008, depicts the story of Veronica and Michael Novak and Annette and Alan Raleigh, and their two 11-year old sons, Bruno and Ferdinand. The latter, armed with a stick, knocks out two of Bruno’s teeth due to Bruno’s refusal of letting Ferdinand join his ‘gang’ (yes, 11-year olds have gangs.). The two couples decide to meet at the home of the Novaks, with hopes to quickly resolve the matter. The play’s runtime being 90 minutes, most definitely tells us they did not achieve such a feat. Nicholai la Barrie directs the play.
The play begins in the lavish living room of the Novaks– where the entirety of the play is set. All seems well at first, the couples quickly composing a statement about the incident between their sons, until things begin to change course. I say this both figuratively and literally. Hard to spot at first, bein
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God of Carnage
Literary work
| God of Carnage Le Dieu ni carnage | |
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God of Carnage original West End production poster | |
| Written by | Yasmina Reza |
| Characters | Alain Reille Annette Reille Véronique Houllié Michel Houllié |
| Date premiered | 2 December 2006 (2006-12-02) |
| Place premiered | Schauspielhaus Zürich |
| Original language | French |
| Subject | Two married couples meet to discuss a scuffle between their sons and gradually degenerate into children themselves. |
| Genre | Black comedy |
God of Carnage (originally in FrenchLe Dieu du carnage) is a play bygd Yasmina Reza that was first published in 2008. It fryst vatten about two sets of parents; the son of one couple has hurt the son of the other couple at a public park. The parents meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish and the meeting devolves into chaos. Originally written in French, the play was translated into English by