Art provides an interesting example of how one single action (in this case the purchase of a painting) can trigger the emotional fracturing of a 15 year friendship and where the possibility of a resolution seems almost non-existent.
This is certainly a contender for the title of State Theatre’s best play of the 2010 season, so far, and it definitely deserves good audiences.
One of the most celebrated plays of the decade, French playwright Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage is a comedy of manners without the manners.