Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Come for the clafouti...stay for the carnage.

Join New Players Theater for a hysterical evening of cultured combat. Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Broadway hit GOD OF CARNAGE will play the Columbus Performing Arts Center’s Van Fleet Theatre March 1st-18th.


Two affluent Brooklyn couples meet to discuss a violent incident between their 11 year-old sons. An attempt at civilized discourse releases the primal instincts of these one-percenters, leaving us to suspect where the boys learned their bad behavior in the first place. Does behaving well get you anywhere, or are we just playthings of the god of carnage?

NPT brings together four of the capitol city’s most celebrated actors -- Sonda Staley as Annette, Tim Browning as Michael, Jill Taylor Barnes as Veronica, and Nick Baldasare as Alan -- for the Columbus premiere of this Olivier, Tony, and Pulitzer-winning play. The production will feature direction by Matt Hermes, set and light design by Tracie Lynn Duncan, and costumes by Michelle Whited.

Tickets are $20. All performances are general seating. At the door, Friday night tickets are 2-for-1 and include admission to NPT’s Friday Epilogue, a public conversation about the play between the audience and the company. Sunday performances fall under NPT’s Pay-What-You-Will program.

To reserve tickets, you may:
> purchase online here
> call 614.874.NPTF or

GOD OF CARNAGE is part of NPT’s year-round Studio Season featuring intimate productions of significant and challenging contemporary plays.