God of Carnage
90 minutes, with no intermission
God of Carnage - 2009 Broadway History , Info & More
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (Broadway)
242 West 45th St. New York, NY
God of Carnage is a comedy of manners without the manners. The play deals with the aftermath of a playground altercation between two boys and what happens when their parents meet to talk about it.
On July 27, 2009 the production began a six-week summer hiatus. Performances resumed September 8.
God of Carnage - 2009 - Broadway Cast
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Acting Fleshes Out God of Carnage
7 / 10
God of Carnage is another of those Yasmina Reza plays that, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Matthew Warchus, have become a kind of commercial-theater tic since the team's big success with Art, which at the time looked like a fresh twist on boulevard entertainment. But now, after three or four trips through Reza's sensibility, we know the pattern too well. A premise that generalizes about human beings is started, a counter-premise contradicts it, an attempt at synthesis upsets the apple cart, and back and forth the dramatic ping-pong ball goes. Reza is clever—exceptionally clever, this time around—at inventing little distractions to conceal the pattern from those who don't cotton on quickly, but these sidebars never deepen the basic premise or materially advance the narrative. Human beings are either A or B or an ungainly combination of both, and for her, that's really all there is to it.
Turf Wars
9 / 10
A rumble of an altogether different kind takes place in the French playwright Yasmina Reza’s dark and hilarious farce “God of Carnage” (elegantly directed by Matthew Warchus, at the Bernard B. Jacobs), which in Christopher Hampton’s excellent translation has been relocated from Paris to the comfortable upper-middle-class environs of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. In a handsomely minimal haute-bourgeois apartment (designed by Mark Thompson), a turf war takes place over a blood-red carpet, a coffee table chockablock with art books, and two elegant glass vases overflowing with white tulips.
God of Carnage History
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God of Carnage - 2009 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Play | Yasmina Reza |
| 2009 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Marcia Gay Harden |
| 2009 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Production of a Play | 0 |
| 2009 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Marcia Gay Harden |
| 2009 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Play | 0 |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Matthew Warchus |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Jeff Daniels |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | James Gandolfini |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Jeff Daniels |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Marcia Gay Harden |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Hope Davis |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | The Shubert Organization |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | The Weinstein Company |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Jon B. Platt |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Scott Rudin |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Stuart Thompson |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Dafydd Rogers |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | David Pugh |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Robert Fox |
| 2009 | Tony Awards | Best Play | Yasmina Reza |
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