The God of Carnage: A Play (Ff Plays)
by:
Yasmina Reza (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571242580 (0571242588)
ASIN: 0571242588
Publish date: 2009-04-28
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Comedy,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
France,
French Literature,
Fiction
I'm going to sound like such a snob but this play left me so unsatisfied. It felt like Albee-lite, with no real purpose or resolution to the unfolding chaos. The characters never evolved beyond their established archetypes and the stereotypical markers of power and gender (men are brutes and like wa...
Reading a script's always a potential disappointment, like consuming a recipe instead of the cake. Certain forms--an exhilirating theatrical performance, a delirious action film--flatten out on the page. I'm not sure I want, for instance, to read what Chow-Yun Fat and John Woo were building from t...
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