Pre-school Wars

Playing in rep with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Two sets of well-heeled Brooklyn parents are brought together for a showdown after their two sons engage in a playground scrap, beginning an epic devolution of social decorum in this biting dark comedy from Yazmin Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by Marco Barricelli for South Coast Repertory.

What Is The Story?

A savagely funny look at wealth, power, and prejudice, and how quickly we crumble when our image of ourselves is attacked, God of Carnage follows two pairs of parents meeting for the first time to settle their sons' schoolyard tangle. But all attempts at civilized discussion quickly devolve into childlike behavior in this fast, furious, and very, very funny comedy of bad manners.