Plays / Drama Objavljeno: 4/25/2024

So God Help Us

So God Help Us

There is a lot of anger and resentment in Dežulović's texts, many questions, but also much good humor, and even sympathy towards faith; that, as the writer says, most understandable of all human weaknesses. I found the key to reading Summa Atheologiae in the last text in the collection, a sort of (un)believer's autobiography by the author titled "Me, God, and My Grandma Kata." Each of us has probably had a grandfather or grandmother, father or mother, for whom it was essential that, just like them, we become active members of the Catholic Church, receive all the sacraments, regularly attend religious education, and participate in other parish activities.

My (un)believer's autobiography would be called, let's say, "Me, God, and My Dad Branko," and many mixed feelings exist. Probably because of this, the protagonists of this play are a family – Father, Son, and Mother, who are far from the idealized, mythological image of the holy family. Their disputes are quite similar to ours (in His image, He created man, right?) and remind us that our misfortunes, contrary to Tolstoy's famous sentence, are not so exclusive.

- Hrvoje Korbar