God of Carnage, Lyric Hammersmith review - a dark piece is lightened with slapstick by Helen Hawkins

Yasmin Reza's savage study of the middle-classes becomes a farce lacking in danger Yasmin Reza's God of Carnage (2008), like her British megahit, 1994's ART, is not strictly a comedy. The French dramatist likes to create gladiatorial spaces disguised as chic living-rooms, where the professional classes slug it out, chewing their way through all manner of pieties and prejudices to reach some kind of climactic end poin…

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