Tatiana Tolstaya - Kys
Year of issue: 2001
Artist: Alexey Dubrovsky
Genre: Satire, dystopia
Publisher: Radio Russia
Type: Solo show
Audio Codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 192 kbps
Duration: 09:27:21
Description: The novel "Kys" is a kind of dystopia - "after the explosion". Written ironically, in a magnificent language, which contains the author's neologisms, understandable to native speakers of the Russian language. To some extent, this is a pamphlet on our life. The duration is approximately two to three centuries after a nuclear war. About the place of action, the following is said: “And the name of our city, native side, is Fedor-Kuzmichsk, and before that, says mother, it was called Ivan-Porfirichsk, and even before that - Sergei-Sergeichsk, and before that his name was Southern Warehouses, but before that - Moscow. "
In the space of the novel, there are not people, but mutants obtained after the explosion. Some have cockscombs on their heads, others have ears all over their bodies. The main character, 23-year-old Benedict, has a small tail in the back, otherwise there are no defects. His main misfortune is that he is more than any other person - that is, a neurotic, with subtle feelings, with the ability to fall in love, with the innocence of an intellectual who does not see how the authorities twist him around the finger.
The kys itself is, according to legend, a kind of monster hiding in the forest and tearing out the spinal cord from the gaping inhabitants. Some argue that kys is just a middle name for ignorance. However, Benedict does not believe in metaphors. Since childhood, he has heard stories about the kysi and is scared to death of this fierce beast.
For this novel, Tatiana Tolstaya was awarded the Triumph Prize in 2001.
The author of the novel wanted his peer Benedict to read. A big casting was held, and everyone agreed that the best artist was Alexey Dubrovsky. And they were not mistaken.
Stage Director - Maxim Osipov
Composer and sound producer - Andrey Popov
Producer - Olga Khmeleva
Project manager - Vyacheslav Umanovsky