Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Ellipse Theatre Community presents the Central Oregon premier of Yasmina Reza’s scathingly funny, Tony Award-winning God of Carnage — a comedy of manners, without the manners.

When two 11-year-old boys have a playground fight, their parents meet for cocktails hoping to discuss the situation civilly. But the evening deteriorates into an intense and darkly funny train wreck of finger-pointing, name- calling, tantrums and tears. And that’s before they break out the rum.