Ivan Vyrypaev is one of the most striking discoveries in contemporary Russian art. His popularity as a playwright and actor is rapidly growing, and this is the case when the lot to become fashionable and showered with awards seems not at all blind, but precisely precise and fair. The choking rap of Ivan Vyrypaev’s stage prose retains colossal energy on book pages. Behind the banter and profanity there is a serious and deep attempt to comprehend today’s reality, to find the relationship between modern man and eternal categories such as God and conscience. “13 texts written in the fall” are 13 steps beyond the threshold of literature. This is because the author wants to look at the world not from the front door of ready-made verbal forms, but from the “black” – something pre-verbal, sub-human. And the dramatic “Text No. 11” (“Oxygen”), suspiciously reminiscent of “cool” rap, even grows into a whole “Bible”. That is, the sacred text of a person for whom there is no meaning outside the trifles of his godless existence. And it says that everything exists only “for the main thing”: “Michelangelo’s paintings and swear words”, cigarette butts in a flowerbed, a shot cat, heroin in the veins and Bach concerts - everything is important and necessary. As soon as he appeared on the theater stage. DOC, “Oxygen” by the young Irkutsk actor and playwright Ivan Vyrypaev was immediately declared “a manifesto of the generation of 30-year-olds.” Press - about the drama “Oxygen” by Ivan Vyrypaev: “With Grishkovets, the “little man” of modern times began his timid life on stage, ineptly , but staunchly rebelling against the cliches and falsehood of official theatrical life. Now he showed up in Ivan Vyrypaev’s “Oxygen” at a completely different stage of a rapidly lived life.”