God of Carnage

(Pat, Cheline, Hilary, Brian. Photo shot Norwegian-style*)


For those of you readers at home who really don't give a sh*t, bear with. You see my friend Hilary lives in New York as do I and we have a mutual BFF Cheline who lives in Austin, TX who was coming here on business at the same time another BFF of mine Brian was going to be here visiting from Seattle who knows Cheline from San Francisco. It was all too something not to do something together in the Big Apple. And tonight while the four of us were having a FAB Thai meal at Pongsri (which was suggested by Hilary, but really a while ago by her sister Sarah who can find you an Afghan plumber with a lisp in New York if cornered to do so) I remarked that Cheline and Hilary are the BFF girl version of Brian and me though there are probably loads of holes in this analogy, but it was cute and would have had the restaurant patrons collectively saying "Ahhhhhh" had I still been drinking and gotten up on the table to announce this.

But let's back up. Why were we even at Thai on W. 48th you ask, feigning interest? Well, about a month ago Cheline bemoaned never getting to the theatre when she is in New York. Bemoaning, as we all know, is a great influencer over others since no one wants to be the bearer or brunter of someone's bemoanage. Theatre tickets had to be gotten.

She and I went through the list and knew that "God of Carnage" was the play to see for us. And according to the two of us, the play for Hilary and Brian to see. And it is the play to see for everyone else as well since it is probably the hottest ticket on Broadway at the moment and sells out every performance. But Cheline was involved, as well as Amex Platinum, so she got 4 orchestra tickets 4th row aisle to a sold out play in the time it would take me to brush my teeth or floss, but not both.

Wow. Whatta an evening. This play by Yasmina Reza who wrote "Art" stars Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden. It is about two couples who meet to discuss what to do when one couple's eleven year old son hit the others' eleven year old son with a stick and knocks out two of his teeth.

I will not ruin the rest, but afterwards I was already exhausted for the cast knowing they would have to give that performance TWICE tomorrow. It is really funny and creepy and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"-y.

What a thrill it was to see these four actors just sink their teeth in.

To each other.

This is not the kind of ensemble piece like "Sex and the City" where the four of us wanted to figure out which character we were most like. And I think that may be part of the point of it.

But great evening in New York City on Broadway with wonderful folk from my wonderful life.

"Woof-woof!" (Inside GOC joke!)


*The guy who took our picture under the sign is the guy in the middle here. He and his buddy are both from Norway where Brian's people are from so I had to do the group Norwegian photo. Always bringing people together, me.