“How many parents, when they’re defending their children, become infantile themselves?” In Ottawa Little Theatre’s God of Carnage, two couples devolve into fits of childishness trying to solve a simple matter of a playground fight.
In this play by Yasmina Reza, two pairs of parents meet to discuss a fight between their sons involving an insult, a stick and a couple of knocked-out incisors. But soon Annette, Alan, Veronica and Michael lose all civility as they start to fight amongst themselves. Arguing about things as varied and as insignificant as the use of the word “armed” versus “furnished” and how best to dry puked-on high literature, the play soon becomes not about the fate of the children, but the childishness of the adults.Read the full review.
