Curious Theatre Presents GOD OF CARNAGE, Now thru 6/8

Curious Theatre Company presents Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, directed by Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton. The production runs April 25 - June 8, 2013 at 1080 Acoma Street, Denver. The opening performance is April 27, 2013, at 8 p.m.

A playground scrap between two boys brings together their parents. These couples meet to iron out the details of the peace accord, but the adults' differences soon come to mirror the conflict of their children. Reza, who won Tony Awards for both this play and the 1998 hit ART, once again displays her considerable gifts for wringing big laughs out of the entitlement and narcissism of her characters. Anyone who has gritted their teeth through a polite conflict will see themselves in this hilarious contemporary comedy of manners.

"GOD OF CARNAGE is play that I have been wanting to produce for three seasons at Curious, and so naturally I am excited to be able to finally share it with Denver audiences," says Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton. "I am equally excited about the opportunity to work on this play with such a talented design team and phenomenal cast - it is a perfect combination of artists for this particular show, a great showcase for our artistic company members, and a tremendous way to cap off what has been a stellar 15^th Anniversary Season."

The cast includes Curious Theatre Artistic Company Members Dee Covington, Erik Sandvold and Karen Slack along with Tim McCracken.

The creative team includesCurious Artistic Company Members Kevin Brainerd?, Markas Henry? and Shannon McKinney, along with Brian Freeland and Kristin Hamer.

Chip Walton (Director) is the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Curious Theatre Company. Named Denver's "2005 Theatre Person of the Year," his directing work has garnered more than 50 local and national awards. In 2008, Curious was honored with the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Walton recently served as the President of the National New Play Network, a network of 26 theatres across the country dedicated to the development and production of new plays for the American theatre. Walton was also selected in the inaugural class of Livingston Fellows, as one of five individuals from across Colorado selected by the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation as exceptional non-profit leaders with significant potential for contribution, change and leadership in Colorado's non-profit sector. He has directed in the National New Play Network Showcase of New Plays as well as the Kennedy Center's MFA Playwriting Festival in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he accepted a National Theatre Company Award for Curious from the prestigious American Theatre Wing in New York.

Yasmina Reza (Playwright) is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes, produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages. She has written seven plays Conversations After A Burial, The Passage Of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life X 3, A Spanish Play, God Of Carnage, How You Talk The Game and six novels (Hammerklavier, Une Desolation (Desolation), Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L'Aube, le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night) ). Films include Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz, directed by Didier Martiny and Chicas, written and directed by the author.

Dee Covington (Veronica Novak) is a founding company member of Curious Theatre Company and was last seen at Curious in Clybourne Park. Other Curious acting credits include The Homebody in Homebody/Kabul, The Loud Stone in Eurydice, Ella in Curse Of The Starving Class, Francine in For Better, Little Genny in Tempodessey and an ensemble member of The War Anthology (for which she received the 2006 The Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Actress in a Drama). Covington's directing credits at Curious include The Brothers Size, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Speech & Debate and The Denver Project. She is also the program director for Curious New Voices, a nationally recognized youth playwriting program.

Tim McCracken (Alan Raleigh) returns to Curious Theatre Company where he previously appeared in A Number and Curious New Voices. Other local appearances include The Giver (Denver Center Theatre Company), Twelfth Night, Noises Off (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). McCracken's regional credits including Rabbit Hole, Pillowman, Stones In His Pockets (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), as well as shows at Geva Theatre, Capital Repertory, Studio Arena, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Portland Stage and many others. HisOff Broadway credits include a revival of The Dining Room (Drama Desk Award), The Sea (TACT), Composition (on which he was also the playwright), Merrick in The Elephant Man (Synapse) and Troilus And Cressida (New York Shakespeare Festival). TV appearances include episodes of Law and Order and Delocated. Film credits include Fishing Naked, Small, Beautifully Moving Parts and Tia and Marco.

Erik Sandvold (Michael Novak) is an Artistic Company Memberat Curious Theatre Company where he previously appeared in 9 Circles, Clybourne Park, Up, Homebody/Kabul, Opus, Rabbit Hole, War Anthology, Fuddy Meers, Closer, Take Me Out (Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedic Role) and I Am My Own Wife (Ovation Award, Best Solo Performance). Sandvold has worked with several leading theatre companies in Colorado, including productions of When We Are Married, Well, Plainsong, Diary Of Anne Frank, Flea In Her Ear (Denver Center Theatre Company), Moonlight And Magnolias, Arsenic And Old Lace, 1940's Radio Hour (Arvada Center), Romeo And Juliet, Twelfth Night And The Rivals (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Sandvold performed the new, one-actor musical Bubs (Ovation Award, Best Solo Performance) at FringeNYC and narrated all the Harry Potter books for the Library of Congress. Sandvold is an alumnus of Northwestern University.

Karen Slack (Annette Raleigh) is an Artistic Company Member at Curious Theatre Company and has appeared in several productions including The Long Christmas Ride Home, 9 Parts Of Desire, Eurydice, Homebody/Kabul, 9 Circles and most recently, Maple And Vine. Slack is also a Resident Acting Company member with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival where she has appeared as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other favorite roles include Frida Kahlo in Painted Bread (Theatre on Broadway), Piper Cummington in DNC Mediamockracy (Listen Productions), Berthe Morisot in Morisot Reclining (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company) and The Syringa Tree (Alliance Stage @Buntport Theater, Theatreworks, Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, Backstage Theatre). She has received awards and recognition from The Denver Post, Best of Westword, and the Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards, among others. Slack received her training at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and HB Studio in New York.

Performances are April 25 - June 8, 2013 . The opening night performance is on April 27, 2013 at 8 p.m. Curtain times are Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 - $44 and are available at the Box Office, 1080 Acoma Street, Denver; 303.623.0524 oronline at curioustheatre.org.

Talkbacks with artistic staff and cast members will follow all performances on May 2 - June 8, 2013.

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Visit curioustheatre.org to learn more.

Curious Theatre Company was founded by a group of artists who met 15 years ago while mounting Tony Kushner's Angels in America (produced by Hunger Artists) in the 19th-century church the theatre still calls home, a few blocks south of the Denver Art Museum and State Capitol. Known for bringing provocative new shows to Denver, Curious has received many awards over the years, including the 2011 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Year by a Theatre Company, 5280 Magazine 2011 Top of the Town Editor's Choice for Best Theatre Company, and Westword's Reader's Choice for Best Theatre in 2012. Under the artistic leadership of Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton, Curious produces up to five mainstage shows per season, the award-winning Curious New Voices education program, the fun and innovative Denver Stories (honoring area luminaries) and myriad of events and interactions that extend and enrich the experience of our audiences.

Actors' Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity's mission is to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 45,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatres as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of the performing arts unions.

*Member of Actors' Equity Association.
?Member of United Scenic Artists Union

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