God of Carnage

Yasmina Reza · 2006 CE · Play · French · Contemporary

Two Paris couples meet in a living room to settle a playground fight between their eleven-year-old sons, and the polite evening unravels. Alliances shift between spouses and across the room as rum is passed around. First produced in German in Zurich in 2006, later seen in Paris and in Christopher Hampton's English version in London in 2008.

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