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Gott Mit Uns

Dan McLaughlin provides a warm and comical look at people who pray in his latest work, "Gott Mit Uns", a thought-provoking comedy that explores the power of prayer and bureaucracy.

McLaughlin introduces two InterDeitific Conflict Resolution Agents (IDCRAs) who spend their days processing requests for personal blessings and curses. But when the resolution agents mix up requests, a Deity Ignored or No Longer Worshiped Anymore Resulting in Curtailment (DIONWARIC) is summoned to the world to resolve a grade dispute in a religious studies class. To complicate this processing error even further, the ignored goddess comes to Earth in the form of an eight-and-a-half-foot penguin.

Armed with their new Vocal Oversight with Continuously Explained Rules for Action (VOCERA) device, the two agents venture forth to bring back the oversized, flightless bird. They track her through modern academia and modern Hollywood, where she proves to be remarkably effective as both an entertainer at children's parties and as a consultant on sword and sorcery movies. Throughout their travels, the agents and goddess pass through other adventures, including a modern high school, and a pie-baking competition.

"In a world where religion is seen as a 'wedge' issue, this play finds humor and room for thought for people of all persuasions," McLaughlin said. "It also looks at what happens to people when filling out forms becomes their life."

McLaughlin's inspiration comes from his questioning of what happens when people of different religious faiths pray for varying results to the same event and why people even bother to pray. In "Gott Mit Uns," the author reflects on a problematic world where powerful bureaucracy exists between different gods and what it does to the people who live there.

In this stage version, the audience experiences the world of the bureaucrat with training videos from the agency that made the error, as well as handling the actual forms themselves.

Adventuresome audience members are encouraged to alphabetize them.

You can experience the videos right now at http://danmclaughlin.info/gott_forms.html

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