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In Your Eyes Productions presents God of Carnage

Two accomplished directors and four fearless actors will take the audience through a whimsical, penetrating tale of the time the Raleighs met the Novaks.
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In Your Eyes Productions presents God of Carnage

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IN YOUR EYES PROJECTS

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In Your Eyes Projects presents the internationally acclaimed hit play God of Carnage, a comedy of manners (without the manners), for the first time in Sault Ste. Marie. 

Opening night: February 10. 

God of Carnage, written by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton is In Your Eyes Projects second offering of their inaugural season of plays. 

The show will be presented at the W.W. Baldwin Auditorium at The TECH, 130 Wellington Street East. 

Tickets are now on sale at the new Box Office in The TECH and online.

Stage directors Loretta Durat and Joseph Lauzon are excited to be working with an extremely dynamic cast and an award-winning script. 

Skye Stewart and Marc Beaudette play Annette and Alan Raleigh while Sandra Forsell and Steve Ancic play Veronica and Michael Novak. 

A strong and experienced cast willing to take risks and explore the wonderful intricacies of both the physical demands of the slapstick humour and the emotional toll of the characters’ turmoil is necessary to honour Reza’s whimsical and yet penetrating play. 

Reza' s carefully woven satirical mosaic immerses these four fearless actors in a world riddled with irony and contradiction, where the substantial is conveyed through the trivial, the tragic through the comic and where madness leads to revelation and the silence is deafening.  

The play is a roller coaster ride of sorts that offers an audience a highly entertaining and provocative ride. 

You will never forget the time the Raleighs met the Novaks. 

Following an altercation between two 11-year-old boys in Brooklyn’s upscale Cobble Hill neighbourhood, resulting in the knocking out of two front teeth, the parents agree to meet to discuss the situation over coffee and cake. 

Their attempts at diplomacy soon crumble as the thin veneer of civility dissipates leaving something far more honest and savage. 

The meeting quickly turns into an uproarious, hilarious standoff where loyalties shift and change and too much is revealed. 

Ah. What a little rum will do!

The New York Times celebrated the Broadway premiere: “Reza’s streamlined anatomy of the human animal incites the kind of laughter that comes from the gut, as involuntary as hiccups or belching.”

Originally written in French and entitled Le Dieu de Carnage, God of Carnage premiered in Germany and later in Paris. 

The English language version premiered at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End in March 2008 where it won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.

Hampton further adapted script for an Americanized edition, which premiered on Broadway in February 2009 originally starring Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels, and James Gandolfini. 

The production was such a hit that the limited engagement was extended seven months before converting to an open-ended run, becoming the third-longest-running play of the 2000s with 24 previews and 452 regular performances.

Nominated for six 2009 Tony Awards, the production won Best Play (Reza’s second win), Gay Harden won Best Leading Actress in a Play and Matthew Warchus won Best Director of a Play. 

The international popularity of the play led to a film adaptation called Carnage, written by Reza with director Roman Polanski and starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz.

Other actors who have played roles in God of Carnage include Ralph Fiennes, Lucy Liu, Ken Scott, Dylan Baker, Jimmy Smits and Janet McTeer.

The play premieres 8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 10 and runs through to Saturday February 13 in the W.W. Baldwin Theatre at the TECH. 

Tickets available online or at the door.

For further information about the production or to get in touch, please visit here.

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