In the organizer's words:

Eleven-year-old Ferdinand Reimann knocks out a tooth from Bruno Schöller, who is the same age. The parents then meet at the Schöllers' home to settle the matter amicably. The two couples could not be more different: Mr. Reimann is a lawyer and, during the meeting, tries to avert a scandal from a pharmaceutical company he is providing legal advice to. That's why he has to talk on his cell phone all the time. His wife Anette is a financial advisor and more of a mother than she would like to be. Veronika Schöller presents herself as an accomplished housewife with a penchant for baking and works part-time in an art bookshop and as a writer. Her husband Michael runs a wholesale business in the household/sanitary sector and has a choleric disposition. This constellation of different personalities creates a field of tension that quickly exposes the "art of civilized interaction" as a farce. The meeting gets out of hand in a dynamic and entertaining way...

About the play: The four-person play premiered in Zurich on December 2, 2006. The French premiere took place in Paris in February 2007, the English premiere in London in 2008. In 2011, it was made into a film by Roman Polanski with a prominent cast (Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and J.C. Reilly).

About the author: The multi-award-winning French author Yasmina Reza was born in Paris in 1959 and initially worked as an actress before she began writing herself. In addition to numerous plays, she also writes screenplays and novels.

About the group: PS:Theater is currently an association of four people from Leipzig with many years of experience in amateur theater and community theater groups. In 2020, "Watzlaff" by Sławomir Mrożek was the group's first joint production. Unfortunately, this play could never be shown in public due to the coronavirus. Therefore, "The God of Carnage" is now the first performance of the PS:Theater.

The actors are:

Martina Glass as Anette Reimann
Ansgar Haller as André Reimann
Melanie Haller as Veronika Schöller
Frithjof Tostlebe as Michael Schöller

Artistic support: Swantje Nölke & Anja Strohschein
Lighting and sound engineering: Ingo Stange
Stage, costumes & overall concept: PS:Theater

Price information:

08 = no coal ticket 12 = normal price 15 = subsidized ticket, for the "no coal" ticket