Talented actors bring God of Carnage to Stamford's Ferguson Library

The four actors share heated talk while 

drinking from a 'rum' decanter 

Today, I had the pleasure of seeing an often vibrant and animated performance of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage.

The play brings together two couples as result of a playground altercation involving their preteen boys: one, yielding a stick struck the other in his face.

The blow broke two incisors and  injured the nerve in one incisor.

While ostensibly, the meeting is to bring together the two boys to effect an apology and reconciliation, in effect, just the unintended occurs.

We get a vivid picture of just how dysfunctional these parents truly are. The focus of the conversation shifts to just how self centered each adult is and how antagonistic each is to his/her spouse and to other spouses.

For instance, the father of the attacker is so preoccupied with his legal clients that he is on another cell phone call every few minutes. His wife, a wealth manager, can't seem to get him to focus for a minute on their son.

The other father loathes his wife and perhaps all women and his wife, we learn, is so preoccupied with writing a book about the tragedy in Dafur. She gets so frustrated with her husband at one point she begins hitting him hard.

Two miserable couples are unable to ever resolve their differences and the play ends with their inability to resolve the differences that brought them together in the first place.

Hats off to the actors in the M&M Production Company who rendered a riveting version of this Broadway show, winner of the 2009 Tony award.

These actors will perform AR Gurney's Love Letters at the Ferguson library on Sunday, April 21st at 2 PM.

See you there!