Olga Mukhina Biography

A small drama theater, St. Petersburg director L. Erenburg, artist V. Polonovsky “The new playwrights have a very long ear and a small heart,” said director Lev Erenburg at a master class for students of the Chelyabinsk Academy of Culture and Arts. After the play “Three Sisters”, which he presented at the eleventh festival of professional drama theaters of “Camela”, everyone believed that there was nothing better than the classics.

It was all the more unexpected that already in December the premiere of the play "Yu" based on the modern play by Olga Mukhina took place in a small drama theater. The play is famous, and I liked not only the artists of a small dramatic. Mukhin is often called "Chekhov in a skirt." Having looked at the performance, you understand that the playwright really has "a long ear and a big heart." In part, the story was “rewritten” by Erenburg: new dialogs appeared, two “fantastic” grandmothers were replaced by one, quite real.

The environment determines the actions of the characters regardless of their will. However, for the heroes of the performance, the sky is too far. Anya accepts a gift, but, realizing that one “thank you” not to get rid of, he returns. The heroine of Vera Trans has an open gaze and a dress of a dream color. The more dramatic contrast with reality. Dmitry is longing for a short time and is fond of Anina Sister with Mukhina, so this heroine, played by Tatyana Ryabokon, is called.

And then - a reference to Cinderella. True, the prince confused and put on his sister on his right leg the left shoe. By the way, the sister has Seva’s husband Vadim Skvirsky. And this love triangle in the communal apartment is not the only one. Elizaveta Sergeevna Barsukova from the war did not wait! But you can fix everything. So they decide to escape from the apartment to meet happiness, like schoolchildren from lessons.

But Elizaveta Sergeevna returns: first - leave her husband pills, then check the gas, then drops the towel by the stove, stretches after him ... And it is already clear that these "schoolchildren" will not run away. Andrei either gets drunk to unconsciousness, or is poisoned by a trimet with Butan. Anya is in love with Andrei, whom he braided in childhood. Anya hopelessly loves Nikolai Andrei Bodrenkov, a sick son of Barsukov.

Timofeeva is added by the grandmother of Helga Filippova. She lives mainly in the toilet and comes out of there to the sound of a drain tank. When "meanness" occurs - there is no toilet paper - the newspaper "Pravda" is used, which is then burned. Once the grandmother nearly lights up herself, the smell of Gary spreads through the hall. Spectators are included in the interactive process: some laugh, others try to suggest that the old woman is on.

As in children's performances, when the kids shout to the hare: “There is a wolf, there is a wolf! And funny and sad. But more sad. The music gives rise to a special mood: the performance opens with the “elegia” of Rachmaninov, written to the death of a friend. The performance colorfully reflects the Soviet life x. A communal apartment with a characteristic environment: a kitchen table covered with an oilcloth, painted stools, a cast -iron bath with a curtain.

A special atmosphere is created by things that you now find only in the flea market: a cot, faceted glasses with cup holders, a radio receiver, torn training, an old breadbine, a coat of arms with the inscription "Best Controller", an enameled kettle. Elizaveta Sergeevna asks Pirogova if she had seen blue cups with a golden border. It seems that almost every house was like that.

But there are no extra items on the site - like Chekhov with his famous gun, all things “shoot”. Stepan Ivanovich sews torn training with a white thread, a sister eagerly drinks right from a teapot, fleeing a hangover. An interesting technical detail is the pitchnet that is used by heroes as a hanger, but at the same time it becomes part of the scenery. Dubolazovaya name "Yu" refers the audience to the English "You" - a play about us.

Indeed, in the play everything is familiar: both low and high. And a strong hangover, and a happy tram ticket that is supposed to eat, and a flying cork from champagne, and driving a crazy jealousy. But in Ehrenburg, the tickets eaten do not guarantee happiness, not only traffic jams fly, but also bullets, the hangover does not pass, which is why the hands of the tenants are shaking more than that of the patient of Nicholas cerebral palsy.

And there is little truth in the newspaper and in life.

But there is hope for great love. With the ashes of the deceased Andrei, Pirogov, who loved him, is talking. Grandmother in a non -working phone tells the missing pilot that "or rather only swans." And the more bitterness it is felt in the play, the more expensive these attempts by the heroes reach heaven.