God Of Carnage By Yasmina Reza

Alan and Annette’s eleven year old son has hit Michael and Veronica’s son in the face with a stick, resulting in two broken teeth.

The parents of the boys agree to discuss the playground incident at a superficially civilised get-together, but, as the night wears on and drinks are imbibed, the meeting degenerates into name calling and mutual dislike. The couples initially spar against each other, but the men gang up on the women and the spouses switch sides as the fighting continues. By the end of the encounter, their acid dialogue has burned through the veneer of smug, bourgeois respectability, with alternately comic and uncomfortable consequences.

Winner of Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play, God of Carnage is a razor-sharp, biting comedy by Yasmina Reza (Art, Lifex3) translated by Christopher Hampton.

This is an amateur production.