Director Rob Lutfy says real-life couples will swap onstage spouses to raise the tension in famously fractious play
Anyone who knows Yasmina Reza’s black comedy “God of Carnage,” or the Roman Polanski film “Carnage” adapted from it, remembers that the story begins innocently enough.
As Rob Lutfy, director of Backyard Renaissance Theater Company’s new production of “God of Carnage,” sums it up: “These characters are only there for one reason — to defend their children, and they turn this home into a gladiator ring.“We’re exploring these primal impulses that are just below the surface of our well-meaning lives,” said Lutfy, former associate director at Cygnet Theatre.
John and Sieber play the Raleighs, whose son knocked two of the other boy’s teeth out, with Green and Gercke as the Novaks, parents of the boy now minus two choppers. To say that in “God of Carnage” the parents quickly become the real children is an understatement. Verbal salvos fly, as does something else that is best not revealed here for those who haven’t seen the play or film.“People always ask me ‘What are your dream plays to direct?’” he said. “For me, it’s about playwrights. And she is one of those playwrights on my list.”“It makes showing up to work so effortless and pleasurable and filled with laughs and love,” said Lutfy.
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