Before you is one of the most famous and scandalous plays by Irkutsk playwright Ivan Vyrypaev. Vyrypaev himself says that the text of “Genesis No. 2” was sent to him by someone Antonina Velikanova, a mentally ill person, and he himself only edited and supplemented her text. The play “Genesis No. 2” is a dialogue between a psychiatrist and a patient, they are also God and Lot’s wife. God proves that he does not exist, Lot’s wife insists on the opposite, and between episodes Vyrypaev in the image of the prophet John sings shameful ditties... And if on the surface one can read open fight against God with blasphemy, then in the depths is hidden a desperate search for God, seeking support in itself. God exists, if you so decide, that’s what Antonina Velikanova and her doctor agreed on...