University Players presents: “God of Carnage”

by Alex Ross Managing Editor

University Players (UP), LHU’s drama club, presented their black box theater production of “God of Carnage” at the Countdown Theater in the Sloan Fine Arts Building.

Four performances took place over the span of three days, from Thursday, April 13 to Saturday, April 15.

The one-act dark comedy, originally written by French playwright Yasmina Reza, depicts two pairs of couples discussing a fight between each couple’s sons. Each character begins the night in a calm and mature manner, but as time passes, the meeting slowly diverges into chaos as the adults act as immature as their children.

Brianna Beck, the show’s director, proposed the play at the be- ginning of the school semester to UP, which was successfully voted on by the club’s executive board. Since the scale of the play is rather small, with only four actors and one set needed to perform, the club decided to utilize the black box theater on the third floor of Sloan rather than the mainstage theater.

“Practices for smaller productions are similar to larger productions,” said Beck, “especially when it comes to breaking the show down in smaller pieces so the actors don’t have to do the entire play in one sitting.”

However, practice times for black box shows are much shorter and less fre-