Chaikin is not random in the choice has become a central theme in his theater: the optimism of American society, they grotesquely depicted in the play "Hooray, America!", As if refusing to recognize the fact of human mortality, but making a living person into a doll, a mannequin, he paradoxically develops in it a sense of deep spiritual discomfort.
"Cain killed Abel, not knowing that kills him - because he did not know what death is," - explained Claude Van Italy and worked as a theater writer, who combined in an integrated scenario freestyle improvisation actors on the theme of Genesis. These improvisations were the basis of the famous play "Snake", the parable of the tragedy of fratricide and crime of ignorance. The performance was given at the same loft, where the actors involved, and where entrance was free for spectators, and every week about 100 people (the more the audience is not permitted for reasons of fire safety) gathered here in order to, according to the director, through a special revelation their vulnerable humanity.
The actors came out of the public, in front of her and began to heat up, as if trying on masks, play one or the other way: for a moment, like a vision of Voracity evil arose a monstrous serpent, innocent lamb of Abel, serene bird walking in the Garden of Eden. And suddenly, as if beginning to slowly scroll through the famous film, photograph of John F. Kennedy assassination. This deliberate slowness and the sharp sound of gunfire going on already and after the president had fallen, created an atmosphere of horror, the fatal inevitability of evil, whose victims as Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Documentary imperceptibly grew into myth, images, music and plastic, replaced each other, and the baton of Cain killing Abel, sounded like an echo to temporary shots sounded in Dallas. Killer raspy breathing and motionless body, prostrate at his feet, proclaimed that human history began. The actors returned to the hall, and gave viewers apples - a sign of their ownership of the tragedy brought into the world of the forbidden fruit - touch their arm or hand, Cain did not know, but you - you know. Do not become Cain!