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God Of Carnage presented by 63rd Street Productions, Inc.
After a very successful Broadway run in 2009, Yazmina Reza's comedy/drama God of Carnage won that year's Tony Award for Best Play. It is often compared to Edward Albee's classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf only shorter and more funny! As one reviewer put it: "It's something like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf performed by the Marx Brothers."
Performed in one single sustained act, the play portrays "in real time" an encounter between two sets of parents trying to figure out what to do about their 10-year-old sons' violent encounter on the school playground during recess a couple days earlier. At first a very congenial, mature and civil meeting, this confrontation gradually deteriorates into a drunken brawl in which the children's misdemeanors pale in comparison to their parents' immaturity and hostility. Thought-provoking yet always humorous, Reza's play was described by The New York Times in 2009 as "A study in the tension between civilized surface and savage instinct Think of God of Carnage as slapstick with a slide rule, of taking three or four smug, upper-middle-class characters and stripping them, with algebraic precision, to their lonely, frightened ids. In this instance farce trumps formula, and (the play) is the richer for it."
Real-life parents are advised that the play's themes are strictly adult in nature and strong language is used occasionally.
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LocationThe Red Barn Theatre (View)
3657 63rd Street
Saugatuck, MI 49453
United States
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| Minimum Age: 17 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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