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Nine Years Theatre on comedy of bad manners God Of Carnage: ‘Civility comes at a huge cost’
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The cast of Nine Years Theatre's staging of God Of Carnage includes (from left) Tay Kong Hui, Cavin Soh, Oon Shu An and Mia Chee.
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SINGAPORE – For Singaporeans who would rather hide behind the mannered facade of prim and polite talk, Singaporean director Nelson Chia, 54, says French playwright Yasmina Reza’s God Of Carnage holds a lesson: “Civility comes at a huge cost.”
Often described as a comedy of bad manners, Reza’s Tony Award-winning play pitches two sets of concerned parents against each other. What begins as a civil discussion about their boys’ playground brawl soon crumbles into vicious language and plain rudeness as the evening wears on.
