Monday 11 April 2016

GOD OF CARNAGE – April 26th to 30th – 8 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  SHOWTIME IS 8 PM EACH NIGHT

 

 

 

 

 

Pocket Theatre and Cinema CNC present....  

GOD OF CARNAGE 

a play by Yasmina Reza.


For cinema fans, this is like a movie, but in SUPER-ENHANCED 3-D! So real! so alive! You’d almost think you are there!

Our production takes place April 26th to April 30th. Tickets are available at Books and Company for all five screenings  shows. Seating is limited, the run is short, so get on down to B and C and secure your place in Prince George dramatic history, all for the low, low price of $15 regular, $12 student, senior, unemployed.

Our skilled cast – Frank Caffrey, Katherine Trepanier, Mark Wheeler, and Allison Haley – brings this story to life for you in room 1-306 at the College of New Caledonia.


Play Description:
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play [USA] and the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Comedy [UK], God of Carnage presents two couples, the Novaks and the Raleighs, trying to resolve a playground incident in which the Raleighs’ son, Benjamin, knocked out two of the Novaks’ son, Henry’s, teeth with a stick.

The forced veneer of civilization presented by Veronica and Michael Novak and Annette and Alan Raleigh peels off rather quickly, as any attempt to proceed civilly somehow gets sidetracked, proving that we don’t ever get too far from the playground and the rules of engagement therein. The delight of watching Yasmina Reza’s play finds itself described in that most lovely of German words: Schadenfreude!


        “God of Carnage,” definitely delivers the cathartic release
        of watching other people’s marriages go boom.
        A study in the tension between civilized surface and
        savage instinct, this play is itself a satisfyingly
        primitive entertainment with an intellectual veneer.”
            – BEN BRANTLEY, The New York Times

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