TAMPA — Tampa Repertory Theatre will present “God of Carnage,” Yasmina Reza’s Tony and Olivier Award–winning comedy, running Jan. 30-Feb. 15, at the Hillsborough Community College Performing Arts Center Studio Theatre, 1411 E. 11th Ave., Tampa.
Tickets and additional information are available at tamparep.org.
The cast includes Christopher Marshall as Alan Raleigh, Courtney Elvira as Annette Raleigh, Andrew Deeb as Michael Novak, and Georgia Mallory Guy as Veronica Novak.
Marshall is a longtime TampaRep collaborator whose recent company credits include “Straight White Men,” “The Elephant Man,” and “Copenhagen.” He also directed “The Dreamer Examines His Pillow” and “All My Sons.” Guy returns to TampaRep both onstage and as sound designer. She previously appeared in “The Elephant Man” and directed “The Crucible” and “The Giver” for the ThinkTank Theatre/TampaRep co-productions. Deeb and Elvira make their Tampa Repertory Theatre debuts. Deeb is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with regional and New York credits, and Elvira is an award-winning Mexican-American actress and opera singer with extensive stage, film, and television experience.
“God of Carnage” is directed by Alexis Carra Girbés, a Tampa-born actor, director, choreographer, and educator. A Yale University graduate, her Broadway credits include “Wicked,” “Sweet Charity,” “Fame” on “42nd Street,” and “The Pirate Queen,” along with multiple television appearances and extensive work as a director and choreographer.
The creative team also includes TampaRep veterans Keith Eisenstadt, lighting designer; Emilia Sargent, producing artistic director and costume designer; Georgia Mallory Guy, sound designer; and Aurora Peugh, production stage manager. TampaRep also welcomes to the team Chris Jackson, assistant director and fight director; and Kalysto Williams, scenic and props designer.
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, “God of Carnage” has been praised by The New York Times as “a streamlined anatomy of the human animal” and by Variety as “elegant, acerbic and entertainingly fueled on pure bile.”