“ ‘God of Carnage’ is not a great play...I suspect this is the play that started the irritating trend of unearned pandemonium, currently featured on Broadway”
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“Never as profound as it pretends to be, God of Carnage admittedly wields its judgmental sense of humor with a certain authority. A five-finger exercise of a play, it can provide an amusingly malicious workout for the right cast. Here, Viselli's actors make the characters awfully perfect examples of perfectly awful people”.
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The direction by Nicholas Viselli ultimately misses a key point in this plot which is that Alan and Annette should be staged as perpetually trying to leave Veronica and Michael’s apartment. These two couples are strangers to each other; they are not friends or even acquaintances. Yet the staging plunks the four of them together with too much familiarity and intimacy. Their situation does not call for them to remain in each other’s company for so long, or for backrubs to be exchanged, etc.; it’s just not believable. The entire premise of the plot is made implausible by blocking and acting choices that should have been redirected.
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“Director Nicholas Viselli’s production gets off to a very slow start, so slow that I was wondering about 20 minutes in how I’d manage to sit through to the end...If you’ve never seen ’God of Carnage,’ it’s worth seeing even in this less-than-stellar revival.”
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As in Art, and French playwright Yasmina Reza’s other theatrical masterworks, this 2007 award-winning absurdist comedy of manners demonstrates a supreme command of dramatic writing while provocatively entertaining. The dialogue flows with smooth precision as the mundane premise is profoundly fulfilled. Her vision is impeccably fulfilled by director Nicholas Viselli through his crisp physical staging, superior sight gags and the cast’s comic, intense and vivid performances in their choice roles.
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"The actors embrace their characters with a seriousness that can only make their behavior funnier."
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