"Attention, please be quiet! Disturbing childhood memories reappear when senior primary school teacher Zhukovskiy hits the cane through the air, tests the pupils on their homework, reprimands troublemakers or punishes them.
For exactly one school lesson long he leads the audience back to events that were surpressed deep down in our subconscious.

With arrogant strictness and crafty watchfulness Zhukovskiy gets respect from his scholars, whose fear of being the next to be called to the black board is clearly written in their faces.

The source of his solo-performance, that was developed one year earlier than the co-production De Gater '87/ Formalny-Theater, is also the material of the novel "School for fools" by Sasha Sokolow. The Novel follows the stream of consciousness of a boy, who becomes a scholar of a special school for handicapped children, after visiting a mental hospital.
Zhukovskiy converts these elements into dens theatre with a simple and succinct metaphorical language. The performance is a skilfull tightrope walk between the all-to-well-known and the totally impossible - sometimes funny, sometimes cruel...