Theatre Arts: The God of Carnage, Nov. 2017

The God of Carnage

 will be performed at Price’s Lab Theater on

Tuesday, November 14, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 16, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, November 17, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.

The God of Carnage, a play by Yasmina Reza, was produced on Broadway (in a translation by Christopher Hampton) in 2009.

Lewis Library has two copies of the play on the lower level (call numbers PQ2678 .E955 D5413 2008  and PQ2678 .E955 D5413 2008B).

For information on Yasmina Reza (born 1959), see:

• Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 321 (online; the DLB also has an entry on Hampton)
• Current Biography Yearbook 1998 (call number REF CT 100 .C8 1998), pp. 493-495
• The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (REF PN 1861 .C65 2007), vol. 2 p. 1135
• Contemporary Authors (REF Z 1224 .C6 v. 171), vol. 171 pp. 321-322

For articles on the play and Reza, try the International Bibliography of Theater and Dance database, which includes:

“Yasmina Reza:  From ‘Art’ to ‘The God of Carnage.’”  Contemporary Review vol. 291 no. 1692, pp. 75-83.

Holden, Amanda Beth.  “The God of Carnage.”  Theatre Journal vol. 61 no. 1 (Mar. 2009), pp. 126-128.