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Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Artistic director Caryn Desai jump starts International City Theatre’s 27th season at the helm of Yasmina Reza’s scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning God of Carnage. The limited, four-week engagement runs January 27-February 19, with low-priced previews on January 24, 25 and 26. Here’s a chance to see this hilarious comedy in ICT’s more intimate setting and watch the fur fly up close!
God of Carnage is a comedy of manners… without the manners. When two 11-year-old boys in Brooklyn’s upscale Cobble Hill neighborhood have a playground fight, Henry’s parents (Leslie Stevens and Greg Derelian) invite Benjamin’s mother and father (Alet Taylor and David Nevell) for cocktails, hoping to discuss the situation civilly – to “practice the art of co-existence” rather than “slaughter each other with insurance claims.” But the veneer of polite society quickly falls away, and the evening deteriorates into a laugh-out-loud train wreck of finger-pointing, name-calling, tantrums and tears. And that’s before they break out the rum.
French playwright Yasmina Reza’s comedy, translated by Christopher Hampton, nabbed both London’s Olivier Award for Best Comedy and Broadway’s Tony Award for Best Play, and was recently released as a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski. Prior to God of Carnage, Reza was best known for Art, also a smash Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy. Other writing credits include Conversations After a Burial and Winter Crossing which each earned the prestigious Moliere Award. She translated Kafka’s The Metamorphosis for Roman Polanski, and has written three novels: Hammerklavier, Une Désolation and Dawn Evening or Night.
