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GOD OF CARNAGE (Ritz): Funny fissures in the façade of civilization

// In GOD OF CARNAGE, French playwright Yasmina Reza’s 90-minute award-winning black comedy, it doesn’t take long to demonstrate the old adage that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, as two sets of parents meet to discuss a playground fight between their eleven-year-old sons. Despite their initial veneer of civility, the upper-middle-class adults quickly descend into behavior as bad as their children’s, revealing the savage nature inherent in all humans, and resulting in steadily growing laughs in the Ritz Theatre’s thoroughly entertaining and engaging production. Maureen Corson, Paul McElwee, Jessica Doheny, and John Jackowski play the couples who have come together to settle their children’s violent altercation.