God of Carnage (2018)

I directed a production of “God of Carnage” by Yazmina Reza, produced by Stendhal X, a company founded by graduates from Concordia’s Acting program. This production put a mixed-race, queer couple at the centre of Reza’s multi-award-winning, globally-acclaimed play about the tensions and mayhem that develop when two sets of parents meet to reconcile after their children have a violent playground encounter. The production performed in Montreal, Gananoque and Ottawa.

NOAH DREW THEATRE ARTIST

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"[This] finely tuned production is set in Montreal, giving the play – which opened in North America on Broadway several years ago – a new immediacy for local audiences. By making one of the couples same sex (Rebecca Bauer as Michelle and Cleopatra Boudreau as Veronica), Stendhal X’s adaptation also highlights the play’s gender and sexual identity themes (Ryan Downey and Annie Luján play the other couple, Alan and Annette). Stylized, ritualistic scenes have been created for this production as well, shattering the realism of the original play to spotlight the tenuousness of our perceived reality and suggesting that our rituals of polite behaviour

Powerfully acted under director Noah Drew ... [this production] delights in tearing open superficial reality to reveal the darker one beneath it."

Patrick Langston

ARTSFILE (Ottawa)

In this incredible interpretation of “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Rena performed by Stendhal X, the story is set in a little apartment turned studio, with a kitchen, bathroom, living room, and let us not forget that balcony at the top of the freestanding room. In a span of an hour, you are taken back to a time where we all have been - in that awkward moment when you walked into an argument and wanted to turn around and back out of it well with “God of Carnage” your right smack dab in the middle of it. Flashback to your childhood when you were either the victim or the attacker and both sets of parents had to have that dreadful parent to parent meeting.”

Belinda Messick

Mobtreal (Montreal)

“Overall, this is a gutsy, entertaining show is well done and allows the audience to appreciate its multifaceted messages. Not only is it clever and humorous, but it has much to say about human nature. The premise contrasts the simplicity of a childhood altercation with the psychological tactics that adults use."

Rachel Levine

Montreal Rampage (Montreal)

"The actors gamely follow each other down the rabbit hole of dysfunction in a production that did not have a slow moment for the entire hour. None of the characters are particularly likeable, and that made them even more hilarious. The audience was thoroughly enjoying themselves on opening night. If you like being a fly-on-the-wall to unraveling marriages, or like plays with strong ensemble casts, God of Carnage is for you."

Helen Lam

apt.613 (Montreal)