The Ice 18

Vladimir Sorokin (1955) is the international star, the great experimenter, and truly scandalous hero of contemporary Russian literature. Hungarian readers have mostly come to know his singular style and unique, often utopian world – moving between the extremes of rawness and poetry – on the basis of his novel Ice. With the premiere of Ice, directed by Kornél Mundruczó, in the fall of 2006, the creative team at Krétakör Theatre staged Sorokin's work at the Trafó venue. The story of Ice deconstructs Russian literature's mythos of love, as well as one of the most defining archetypes of its collective unconsciousness, the paradigm of the worldwide conspiracy.