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God of Carnage is a play written by Yasmina Reza and just recently won the award for Best Play at the 2009 Tony Award celebration at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Tourists who are staying in a best Manhattan hotel will be pleased to know that it is still running on Broadway at the Barnard Jacobs Theatre, and though most performances will be sold out, they still have a chance at getting tickets. Theatre is one of the main reasons tourists are attracted to New York, and tickets generally sell out fast. To testify to the prominence and popularity of the New York theatre scene, Broadway has experienced one of its biggest revenue seasons in years.

The current production of God of Carnage has an all-star cast including Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini , and Marcia Gay Harden. Marcia Gay Harden won the Tony award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. The play’s plot revolves around two sets of parents, one of whose child hurt the other one while playing in a public park. The four adults meet with each other to discuss and resolve the situation. However, the evening does not go smoothly and as it progresses the parents become more childlike and irresponsible as the conversation quickly dissolves into chaos.

Reza is a French playwright, actress, screenwriter and novelist. God of Carnage, Le Dieu du Carnage, was originally produced in Zurich where it received the Viennese Nestroy-Theatreprize for the best German language production of the season. It was translated into English by Christopher Hampton for its premier in London’s West End. An interesting circumstance that occurred during the London opening night performance is that the lights went out due to a power failure. The play went on and was performed in emergency lighting. Another and more prestigious aspect of the London production is that it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Ralph Fiennes was in the London production. In addition to plays, Reza has written 6 novels and 2 screenplays.

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