God of Carnage
March 13, 2013 - April 7, 2013
By Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Overview
From the playwright that brought you Art, comes this hilarious 2009 Tony Award Winner for Best Play. Two high-strung couples, Alan and Annette Raleigh and Michael and Veronica Novak, decide to meet one evening for a civilized discussion about a playground altercation between their two young sons. What follows is a comically explosive downhill slide from polite, political correctness to full-on character assassination. The New Yorker called this laugh-out-loud hilarity "ninety minutes of sustained mayhem." A no-holds-barred look at relationships between spouses and friends, and what happens when the littlest things end up pushing us completely over the edge…