God of Carnage Tickets

Elizabeth MgGovern will star in Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which will run at Theatre Royal Bath in 2023. McGovern will take on the role of Martha, famously played on screen by Elizabeth Taylor and most recently in the West End by Imelda Staunton. Further casting is to be announced including the highly anticipated role of her husband, George. Lindsay Posner, who is well known for directing stars, will helm the play. It is not known if there are plans for a West End transfer. First staged on Broadway in 1962, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? was soon established as one of the great plays in post-war American drama, winner of the Tony and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Play. Its reputation was further enhanced by Mike Nichols’ multi Academy Award winning 1966 film adaptation, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Sixty years on from its premiere, it is now seen as one of the most influential and highly regarded plays in American literature. Elizabeth McGovern is best known for playing Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey. She was Academy Award nominated for her portrayal of Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime, and had leading roles in the movies Once Upon A Time In America, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Wings of the Dove. Her recent stage credits include the UK tour of God of Carnage. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will run from 13 January 2023 - 11 February 2023 at Theatre Royal Bath.

First glimpse of Theatre Royal Bath's all-star cast of God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza’s award-winning  French farce God of Carnage stars much-loved actors from hit television series Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Ralf Little (The Royle Family) and Nigel Lindsay (Victoria). Translated into english by Christopher Hampton, God of Carnage is a ruthlessly comic study of middle-class parenting. The 2008 production won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and the Tony Award for Best New Play. Lindsay Posner directs this production, as part of Artistic Director Jonathan Church’s second Summer Season at Theatre Royal Bath. [ngg src="galleries" ids="563" display="pro_tile"] God of Carnage runs from 4 September 2018 until 15 September 2018 at Theatre Royal Bath.

I'm not quite sure what Yasmina Reza makes of Christopher Hampton's sparkling adaptation of her latest play God of Carnage. She has gone on record as saying her bleak and futile view of humanity and profound insights into life and relationships are often lost in translation. She has also said that she wants her audiences to suffer. Well, if the reaction on the night I attended the play is any indication – Hampton has let her down badly, leaving Ms Reza to sob all the way to the bank. The audience, myself included, laughed hysterically and enjoyed themselves enormously at what, in effect, is an uproarious comedy of bad manners involving two bourgeois French married couples who meet for the first time when their respective schoolboy sons become involved in a playground skirmish resulting in one of them having two front teeth knocked out. What begins as a civilised confrontation between the two sets of parents slowly develops into a gloves off row ending in a Pyrrhic victory. In the process, both couples reveal their frailties and strengths, their dormant fears and anxieties and their emotional shortcomings and insecurities. Hampton excavates more laughs from this all-too-recognisable situation than Ms Reza ever intended and by so doing has created a crowd-pleaser, which, like the same team's ‘ART’, will run for years and survive several cast changes. The present cast Janet Mcteer and Ken Stott, in whose home the play takes place, and Ralph Fiennes and Tamsin Greig as the couple whose son inflicted the damage – are absolutely superb. Mark Thompson's blood-red living room set strikingly compliments the fiery passions aroused, and the incisive direction, alive to every nuance in the text, is by Matthew Warchus. The West End has a towering hit on its hands. Sorry about that, Yasmina. CLIVE HIRSCHHORN. Courtesy of This Is London. GIELGUD THEATRE.