Following a playground scuffle between their eleven year old children, the parents of the “victim’ have invited the parents of the “bully” to their apartment to sort it out. Cordial banter gradually develops a razor-sharp edge as all four of the well-heeled American parents reveal their laughable contradictions and grotesque prejudices, the polite facade soon disintegrating into a vicious battle of words. Carnage is a crackingly performed adaptation of Yazmina Reza’s biting satire.