11 year-old Ferdinand has punched out two of Bruno’s teeth, his fellow. Their parents meet to talk about it peacefully. Alain and Anette have been invited to the victim’s parents Veronique and Michel’s home to solve the conflict in a grown-up and civilised way. Why did the two boys fight in the first place? As the afternoon passes, what should have been a cultivated and grownup reconciliation develops into a series of accusations, insinuations and a much worse and unrecoverable conflict that causes skeletons to come out of the closets. This is a brutal comedy which examines the middle class and its view on child-rearing in a grotesque and absurd manner. Yasmina Reza is the most popular living female dramatist in the world and LE DIEU DE CARNAGE is currently enjoying vast success in Europe.
