So God Help Us
Drama
Based on 'Summa atheologiae' by Boris Dežulović

100 min

So God Help Us

The play So God Help Us was based on "Summa atheologiae" by Boris Dežulović, a collection of newspaper columns. Director and dramaturge Hrvoje Korbar, in collaboration with the creative team and cast, spent several months preparing, seeking, and finding a way to shape a full-fledged theatrical structure from Dežulović's diverse journalistic material.

The play is performed in Croatian without subtitles.

So God Help Us

There is a lot of anger and resentment in Dežulović's texts and many questions. Still, also a lot of good humor and even sympathy towards faith - that, as the writer says, is the 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 probably had a grandfather or grandmother, father or mother, for whom it was of utmost importance that, just like them, we become active members of the Catholic Church, receive all the sacraments, attend religious education regularly, and participate in other parish activities.
My (un)believer's autobiography would be called something like "Me, God, and My Dad Branko," and there are a lot of mixed feelings in it. Probably because of that, the protagonists of this play are a family - Father, Son, and Mother - who are far from the idealized, mythical image of the holy family. Their conflicts are similar to ours (didn't God create man in his image?), reminding us that our misfortunes, contrary to the famous Tolstoy quote, are not so exclusive.

Hrvoje Korbar

Director i dramaturge

Hrvoje Korbar

Scenographer and costume designer

Katarina Perić

Composers

Matko Botić and the play's ensemble

Light designer

Elvis Butković               

Played by:

Stipe Jelaska, Stipe Radoja, Donat Zeko