#civic-discourse

#civic-discourse

Not much happens in "Art": three bourgeois friends disagree on a matter of taste, and, instead of talking normally about it over a drink, they make increasingly savage personal attacks whenever they meet. Reza, a Parisian playwright and novelist, won a Tony for "Art" in 1998 and another for her even sluggier slugfest, "God of Carnage," in 2009. In these influential insult comedies, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, Reza satirizes the vapidity and pettiness of the upper-middle class;

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.