Playwright Yasmina Reza

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Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist based in Paris whose works have all been multi-award winning, critical and popular international successes. Her play, ART, won Olivier, Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Play. The National Theatre production of LIFE (x) 3 received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Play. Other plays include CONVERSATIONS AFTER A BURIAL, THE PASSAGE OF WINTER, THE SPANISH PLAY and THE UNEXPECTED MAN.  Those plays, as well as ART and LIFE (x) 3, have been translated into 35 languages and produced worldwide. Her last novel, Dawn, Dusk or Night (Knopf 2008), has been translated worldwide.

 

God of Carnage

By Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christpher Hampton

October 12-November 6, 2011
Directed by John Caywood
With Darrin Doman, Nell Gwynn, Zack Phifer, Christy Summerhays

A Tony Award-winning comedy centered around two sets of parents having a cordial meeting in reaction to a neighborhood brawl by their sons. When parents parent you on parenting, the only thing left standing is the set.