Summary
Mirko Kovač: Jesus on the skin
Selected plays
Theatrical play Jesus on the skin testifies to all the essential features of Kovač's literary process. In the original version, black humor tones and elements of family drama dominated, and the drama of a time, the ruin of the key institutions of society and its morals, was just glimpsed, while in the new version, Kovač mercilessly entered the narrative of our time, into a narrative of fate in which the main character sinks lower and lower until he finally sinks completely, refusing to adapt to the criminal age. In the small space of the prison room, ordinary human destinies, ordinary, mostly petty criminals, intertwine and collide. In the beginning, everything is seemingly naive and harmless, like the main character, a former pickpocket nicknamed Jesus, but behind this apparent naivety, a deep inner human darkness emerges from all corners of the story, whose hostages become as much convicts as their guards. The basic features of Kovač's dramatic talent are shown in the authentic dialogue of life, the ability to "catch" a character in several situations, in the precious feeling for the ambiguity of each situation (tragic is comic, and comic is tragic).
Filip David
Many of these texts, despite the fact that they were performed with more or less disagreements, were contested, so I chose them also in order to combine them into a whole that could equally to stand by everything I wrote as a prose writer.
Mirko Kovač
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