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GOD of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza (who wrote Art)
A hilarious comedy when parents behave
worse than their kids
Date Sunday,
May 17th 2009
Time 1:30pm to
3:00pm
Place Howard's office - 1601, 16/Fl.,
Bonham Centre, 79 - 85 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan
Admission Free
RSVP by Phone 94305725
RSVP by
Email committee@acthongkong.com
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Comedy
Full Length
The Characters
Michel Vallon "fundamentally uncouth",
a self-made businessman, prefers work to family and likes to do the right thing. Even so, he cannot help himself but launch into an
outspoken tirade against children.
Veronique Vallon an author with an interest in African issues, is social
awareness personified with her defense of little Bruno but also the worldˇ¦s downdden. Even so, she can speak as harshly as anyone.
Alain Reille quietly bullying Alain is an embarrassingly high-powered
corporate/libel lawyer. He is more attached to his mobile phone than his
wife or son and, sadly, is an immediately recognisable
city figure.
Annette Reille worn down, eventually allows decades of
repressed feelings to flow like the projectile vomit that horribly started
off the downward spiral of relations.
The Story
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the
unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and
rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to
behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears
before bedtime? Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse ˇV much
worse.
Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina
Reza's sharp-edged new play God of
Carnage premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in March 2008. Christopher
Hampton has translated five plays by Yasmina
Reza: 'Art', The Unexpected Man, Conversations after a Burial, Life x 3 and
The God of Carnage.
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