Anat Gov „O DIEVE MANO!“ komedija (Lumo studija, Lietuva, rež. Gabrielė Tuminaitė)

ANAT GOV "OH MY GOD!"

Psychologist Ela, breaking her rules, receives a client after work, who threatens that something irreparable will happen without urgent help from a psychologist. The visitor introduces himself as ...God.- Ha ha ha! What happened that even God needs help?! It turns out that Ela only has 40 minutes to save the world. Light, witty, but intellectual and prophetic dialogue between the Creator and the Creation, on which EVERYTHING depends

EVERYTHING!

Lumo studio premiere October 29, 2024

LAUGH AND CATHARSIS (TEARS) FOR ONE KAINĄ

"At first glance, Anat Gov's play "My God" looks like a fairly simple comedy, surprising from the first pages with the fantasticness of its situation - God requires the help of Ela, a child(!) psychotherapist, otherwise something irreparable will happen (as it turns out - "an improved flood", "forks for everyone, even the chosen ones"). Ella has a single session to save the world, part of which is "eaten" by Ella's disbelief that the client is God.

For most of the play, we witness a sparkling and funny standup on well-known biblical themes with well-constructed dialogues and jokes. The basic purpose of comedy is to surprise and make people laugh.

However, comedy's ordinariness (unexpectedly, like a lightning strike) collapses when the second layer of the play opens. When the drama of characters who, as is usually believed, are the least psychologically vulnerable (Ela is a psychotherapist, and God is all-powerful) unfolds.

The playwright set an extremely difficult and risky task to both make the audience laugh and cause him catharsis in one performance (remember that catharsis, a necessary element of tragedy, is by no means mandatory in comedy). So, paradoxically, Anat Gov's comedy squeezes out tears as well.

And another paradox - the Israeli playwright acted in a completely un-Jewish way - she sold two for the price of one. It's necessary to use it!"

- Translator of the play, poet, playwright Mindaugas Valiukas

"I wonder what God looks like? Now I know what he looks like and how he feels... I have such a privilege. It's very interesting."

- Actor Vaidotas Martinaitis

"What would you ask if you had the opportunity to meet face to face with God?

My character Ella confidently says "I don't believe in God! Look around, do you think God exists?!" Raising her autistic son alone and working as a psychologist, she had enough opportunities to be both horrified and disappointed in her life. But this meeting will be fateful. And one does not know who will help whom to survive the healing transformation".

- Actress Valda Bičkutė

"I have always been interested in the roles of "different" people, those who are shunned by most of society or seem unacceptable. I am interested in how such people think, what they think about, how they accept life, how they enjoy it. And they really enjoy it, maybe even more often than the so-called "healthy" people.

The play itself, when I read it for the first time, amused me a lot, it is a cheerful and engaging story. I am glad that this story fell into the hands of the director Gabriela Tuminaita, I believe that the performance will not only make the audience smile, but also invite them to think, touching on today's current issues".

- Actor Tomas Šečkus

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