God of carnage

Wednesday thru sunday October 13—November 7

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God of Carnage is a wickedly funny look at what happens when civility, manners, and parental diplomacy begin to unravel.
Four seemingly reasonable adults collide in a battle of egos that is as revealing as it is hilarious.

Performance Information

All are 1 pm indoor performances at Grizzly Peak Winery. Wednesdays—Sundays, October 13-31

The performance runs 85 minutes with no intermission. $40 ($45 at door).

October 13 Preview: Discount tickets. $30

October 14 Opening: Join us after the show for wine or sparkling water and a talk back with the actors and director. Benefit for Planned Parenthood SW Oregon. $60. ($55 at door). Thursday Talkbacks are $45 ($50 at door).

Ticket benefits and discounts: Wine Wednesdays (October 20, 27‍), Talkbacks Thursdays (October 21, 28) , Friend Fridays (October 15, 22, 29). Click here for more info. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be transferred to a different production. You may exchange your tickets for another performance of God of Carnage (subject to availability) for a $5 fee per order, $10 per order within 48 hours of showtime, payable at check-in. Email here. You may also donate your tickets back to the theater or transfer them to another person seeing the play on the same date.

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Need access seating? The winery is mobility accessible. Arrive by 12:10 and let the reception staff know when you check in. Note that seats may be reserved as a donor benefit.

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Food Bank: We collect non-perishables on the patio before every performance. If you’re able, please consider helping support our neighbors in need.

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Meet the Artists

Danforth Comins (Michael)

Danforth performed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival where he played Pericles in Pericles and Tyrell in Richard III. Highlights of 16 seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival include the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Coriolanus; Aguecheek in Twelfth Night; Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing; Edmund in Long Day’s Journey into Night; Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire; Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Brutus in Julius Caesar; Iago in Othello, The Odyssey, The Liquid Plain, Bus Stop, King John, and Richard III, among others. Others: Throne of Blood (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Manahatta (Yale Rep); Othello (American Repertory Theatre); All the Way, The Great Society (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Macbeth, Timon of Athens (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Hamlet (Utah Shakes, PCPA Theaterfest). Film: The Kings Head, Border Hunters, Atypical Pirate, Hate Thyself, Above the Trees, Black Road, Redwood Highway, Walk-In, Shale, Indigo, others. Education: MFA, University of Illinois; B.F.A., Pacific Lutheran University. 

Miriam A. Laube (Veronica)

Miriam is a first-generation American, actor, director, and producer, born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Recent directing credits include As You Like it, at Hudson Valley Shakespeare, King James at the  Pioneer Theater, Much Ado About Nothing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Queen at Theatreworks Silicon Valley, and The Tempest at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. For 18 seasons Miriam was an actor at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she had the honor of working with an extraordinary company of artists. Her favorite roles include Cleopatra, Olivia, Hermione, Rosalind and Julia, The Witch in Into the Woods and Vasantasena in The Clay Cart. She is proud to have originated the roles of Gynecia in Head Over Heels, and Cleo in Family Album. She has worked on Broadway in Bombay Dreams, and Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, 59E59 Theaters, and the Ensemble Studio Theater. She has worked regionally at Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, and The Guthrie Theater. She received a Henry Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the original production of The Book of Will at the Denver Center. She also served as the Senior Producer for the first season of the Next Chapter Podcasts Play On Podcast series, producing audio productions of Macbeth, Pericles, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, King Lear, and Twelfth Night.  She sits on the board of Play On Shakespeare. In the fall, she will be working on the world premiere of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr at Minnesota Opera. Miriam is honored to be both a Fox Fellow and a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

Shyla Lefner (Annette)

Shyla is thrilled to be back in Ashland and playing in the Rogue Theatrer Company’s production of God of Carnage. Shyla was a cast member in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2018/19/22 seasons working on various productions including Alice in Wonderland, Henry V, Manahatta (OSF & Yale Rep), The Way the Mountain Moved and The Cymbeline Project (OSF Digital). She was recently seen in Larissa Fasthorse’s production of Fake It Until You Make It at the Arena Stage in Washington DC as well as the Tony-nominated Broadway revival production of Our Town at the Barrymore Theatre. Shyla was an original cast member of the 1491s’ Obie-Award winning Between Two Knees, an OSF American Revolutions world premiere followed by regional runs at Yale Rep, McCarter, Seattle Rep and culminating at NYC’s Perelman Arts Center. Other selected regional credits include Eisa Davis’ Bulrusher (McCarter & Berkeley Rep); Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Door You Never Saw Before (Geffen); Fairly Traceable, Off the Rails and The Frybread Queen (Native Voices). Some film and television credits include FX/Hulu’s The Lowdown, Polar Sun, Point of Origin, Grace and Whatever It Takes. Proud graduate of the University of Southern California @shylalefner

Rex Young (Alan)

In 25 seasons at OSF: Lane in The Importance of Being Earnest, Jake Ledyard and Sam Grafton in Shane, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing; Charles Mills, Judge in The Copper Children; Touchstone in As You Like It; Duncan, Doctor, Porter in Macbeth; Charles VI, Fluellen, Archbishop of Canterbury in Henry V; George Harris in The Way the Mountain Moved (world premiere); Master Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing; George in The Language Archive; Weinburl in On the Razzle; Aguecheek in Twelfth Night; Cornwall in King Lear. Other productions: Antony and Cleopatra, The Great Society (world premiere), Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death and the King’s Horseman, Cyrano de Bergerac, Coriolanus, Our Town, The Winter’s Tale, Timon of Athens, Enrico IV. Other theatres: Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Capital Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, others. New York: World premiere of Flight(Lucille Lortel Theatre). Film/TV: Captain Fantastic, All My Children, Designing Women, ABCD, Language of Love. Education: ART Institute, Harvard University; BFA, SOU.

Rodney Gardiner (Director)

Rodney is an actor, writer, and director based in Los Angeles. His TV/film credits include major recurring roles in David Makes Man (OWN) and From Scratch (Netflix), and the feature film Billy Knight, starring Al Pacino. Favorite guest appearances include Outer Banks (Netflix) and Brothers Sun (Netflix). As a director, Rodney is currently directing True West at The 222. He was associate director on Master Harold… and the Boys at Geffen Playhouse, starring John Kani. At OSF, the August Wilson Directing Fellow on Jitney (Dir. Tim Bond) and assistant director on A Midsummer Nights Dream (Joe Haj) in 2020. As a veteran member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Acting Company Rodney has played major roles in Shakespeare, musicals, and new works, including his own Smote This, A Comedy About God…and Other Serious $h*t. Other favorite credits include Cassius in Julius Caesar, Feste in Twelfth Night, Tinman in The Wiz, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, and The Dromios in The Comedy of Errors. Other notable credits include devising and performing Off-Broadway with Waterwell in The Last Year In The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Persians, Marco Millions (Drama Desk nominated) and others. Selected regional credits include Metamorphosis (Berkeley Rep/Guthrie), Guys & Dolls (Guthrie Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (Old Globe), American Night (La Jolla Playhouse/Kirk Douglas Theatre), Gem of the Ocean at The Fountain Theatre (NAACP AWARD), The Tempest (Shakespeare Center LA). SUNY Purchase (BFA).

Yasmina Reza (Playwright)

Yasmina is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and A Spanish Play, God of Carnage, How You Talk the Game and Bella Figura have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages. In 1995, Art premiered in Paris and went on to win the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has been produced world-wide and translated and performed in over 30 languages. The London production received the 1996-97 Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award and the Tony award in 1998 in New York. God of Carnage, opened on 8 December 2006 at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, directed by Jürgen Gosch, received the Viennese Nestroy-Theatreprize for the best German-language performance of the season. In Paris on 25 January 2008 at the Théâtre Antoine, Yasmina Reza directed the play with Isabelle Huppert. Since she directed How you play the game and Bella Figura and Anne-Marie la Beauté in Paris. Novels include: Hammerklavier, Une Desolation, Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d’Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L’Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (This novel Dawn, Dusk and Night, has been translated over 40 countries and was printed in April 2008 in America - Knopps editions.) The novel Happy are the happy has been translated worldwide and won the award Le Monde. The novel Babylone, published in 2016 won the prestigious Renaudot Award. Her last novel Serge, has had a huge success in France. Yasmina directed her first movie Chicas in 2010.