Legend on st. Muhla

Legend on St. Muhla belongs to early works of Matišić and it had its premiere in 1988. It is quite interesting that he dedicated this comedy to “his friends and longtime fellow-workers” a writer G. Boccaccio and late director Marin Carić, and it was exactly Carić who persuaded him to do the play and later it was Carić who directed it in Ivan pl. Zajc Croatian National Theater.

This comedy was writen inspired by a short story from The Decameron by Boccaccio about a hypocritical friar who deludes ladies in order to get carnal pleasures. The plot is set in Dalmatia hill region, however the director Zoran Mužić in spite of that fnds the text more than topical even today. “On one side there is a false prophet flled with doctrines, while on the other side there are people who need this prophet”, which, according to Mužić, means that Matišić wrote our present covering it with the cloak of the dark Middle Age. The Legend is a satire from the point of awareness, abounding with absurd, irony, while formally speaking it is a comedy with incredibly funny dialogues and excellently characterized roles, all these being more than enough histrionic recommendations.