By Yasmina Reza

Reza’s play, God of Carnage, one of the most popular and acclaimed plays of the last 10 years, charts the course of a superficially civilized get-together of two sets of parents meeting to discuss their children’s playground fight. It soon degenerates into an evening of mutual dislike and name-calling. By the end of the encounter, their acid dialogue has burned through the veneer of smug, bourgeois respectability, with alternately comic anduncomfortable consequences. Reza has been hailed as “a born satirist”; others proclaimed themselves “delighted by her incisive observation” and “shrewd humor.” It scooped an Olivier for Best New Play and when God of
Carnage transferred to Broadway in 2009, it won a Tony and became the third-longest-running production of the decade. Adult language.