GOD OF CARNAGE
by Yasmina Reza
Olivier Award Best New Comedy 2009
Tony Award Best Play 2009

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays,
Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, ‘Art’, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and
A Spanish Play, have been produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages.
Her latest play,
Le Dieu du Carnage, opened on 8 December 2006 at the Schauspielhaus in
Zurich, directed by Jürgen Gosch; in Paris on 25 January 2008 at the Theatre Antoine, directed by the author, with Isabelle Huppert; in London on 25 March 2008 with Ralph Fiennes directed by Matthew Warchus and on Broadway in March 2009 with James Gandolfini.
Novels include:
Hammerklavier, Une Désolation, Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d’Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and
L´Aube, le Soir ou la Nuit.
Film includes:
Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz directed by Didier Martiny.