After a succesful run at their community hall, the Cawston Players are bringing their production of God of Carnage to the Penticton next week.
God of Carnage, a play by Yasmine Reza translated by Christopher Hampton was a Tony Award-winning production on Broadway in 2013. The play is an edgy black comedy that touches on loaded topics of misogyny, racial prejudice and homophobia in its comic pummelling of middle class sensibilities.
Directed and produced by Dave Cursons, the Cawston Players version features Melissa Marr, Eban McKiblin, Amanda Elyzen and Morris Holmes.
Cursons said the play is a change from the troupes usual round of lighter comedies, describing it as a comedy of manners without manners, which is to say the laughs have a hard edge. In fact, this one comes with an advisory for adult themes and coarse language
The play is about a sit down chat between two sets of parents following playground violence between their young sons. Their awkward efforts to come to terms go awry and the meeting goes … ballistic.
The play runs June 2-4 at the Shatford Centre with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the curtain rising at 7 p.m.
Tickets are available for $15 at Dragon’s Den on Front Street, the Shatford Centre, and some at the door.
