This is what the prosecutor said

Tbilisi Pomegranates International Chamber and Mono Play Festival Germany - Grigory Kofman Independent Project That's What He Said... The Prosecutor - based on Vladimir Sorokin (7th part of the novel "The Norm") A judicial proceeding-schizophrenia with personality splits of all present, including the jury-spectators Prosecutor (Defendant) – Grigory Kofman (text, action) Vladimir Sorokin's works provide an excellent opportunity to unfold multi-layered situations on stage. This happens thanks to a modern mythological image that can be described as the Ghost of Human Culture. It's not a full-bodied character, but a spirit cobbled together from traces-imprints of the most important achievements in the history of Culture. It manifests through the richness of linguistic associations, the absurdity of characters' behavior, and intervenes with shocking elements in seemingly traditional theatrical action. In "The Speech of the Chief Prosecutor," the prosecutor deals with the Case of a certain Defendant, accused essentially of placing twentieth-century art above all other achievements of human culture – above Leonardo, Shakespeare, Mozart... However, forced to operate with specific cultural-evidence and address the defendant's non-standard logic when examining this Case, the speaker himself occasionally turns into the Defendant... - Who is Marcel Duchamp? - What does a white urinal in an empty exhibition hall mean? What destructive role can cultural studies play in state-building, especially if they are related to avant-garde art? These questions are posed with all sharpness and principle by the state Prosecutor, to whom the Defense Attorney, of course, objects. Everything would be fine if the former didn't occasionally "get carried away," and the latter had no arguments other than musical imprints. Mono Play in 70 minutes. Outstanding prose, as no one has ever seen or heard it before.