GRINDROD BANK THEATRE

80 MINS

SAT 1745

SUN 1730

R 140

A comedy for grown ups!

The hottest ticket on Broadway is coming to Hilton after a sell-out season in Durban! Kickstart’s The God of Carnage is a wickedly funny social comedy, featuring a brilliant local cast of multi-award winning actors: Clare Mortimer, Jailoshini Naidoo, Tim Wells and Iain ‘Ewok’ Robinson. Tony Award winner Yasmina Reza (writer of Art) brings a razor wit and profound understanding of human subtleties to her play, in which two civilized married couples meet up to sort out a playground fight. The son of one couple has broken two of the teeth of the son of another. At first diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses and the rum flows, huge tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving their liberal principles in tatters, and the audience in stitches!

The play is directed by Steven Stead, designed by Greg King, with lighting design by Tina le Roux.

• WINNER BEST NEW COMEDY! - 2009 Olivier Awards
• WINNER BEST PLAY! - 2009 Drama League Awards
• WINNER BEST NEW PLAY! - 2009 Outer Circle Critics Awards
• WINNER BEST PLAY! - 2009 TONY AWARDS

“The God of Carnage is a collection of contradictions: it is simple, yet deliciously layered. It is both sad in its revelations and also laugh out loud funny. It is at once high brow and uncouth, light and yet profound, and like the writer Yasmina Reza once perfectly summed it up-it is a “funny tragedy”…a brilliant piece of theatre that deserves to be appreciated” Colin Roopnarain, Sunday Tribune

“A truly fine, fun play that proves a good showcase for four great performers…none of the cast puts a foot wrong, creating a work…that is both dark and light, and puts the playing on a knife edge that makes it thrilling and dangerous, for actors and for the audience.” Billy Suter, The Mercury