For people far from the theater, or those who visit it only once every six months, the name of the author Olga Mukhina will be unfamiliar. Meanwhile, in the nineties, one of her plays was a tremendous success, they started talking about the girl as a new phenomenon in Russian dramaturgy. However, now, after several years, information about this talented author is becoming less and less, because often fate is capricious with creative people.
Biography
Olga Mukhina was born in 1970 in Moscow, although her childhood passed in the distant northern city of Ukhta. After leaving school, the girl decided to devote herself to cinema and several times unsuccessfully tried to enter the scriptwriters department at VGIK. Only after three years of failure Olga decides to go to study at the Literary Institute . Gorky. There is a serious revision of views, she falls in love with the theater and begins to write plays.
Unexpected success. "Tanya - Tanya"
All her work is about love. The first works - "The Sad Secrets of Xavier Kaludsky" (1989), "Alexander August" (1991) - did not bring great success, they were published in the journal "Modern Drama", but so far no one wanted to undertake the production.
And in 1994, Olga Mukhina creates a play under the extraordinary title "Tanya-Tanya." According to the author himself, she wrote in the village, in silence, even in anticipation of true love. Perhaps this feeling provoked success. Suddenly, the play fell into the hands of one of the theater's directors, Pyotr Fomenko. Performances are held in full rooms, Olga Mukhina, a playwright, is becoming very popular in the creative environment, she is happy to be interviewed and predict a great future.
Moreover, the play became interested abroad, it was translated into English, French, Danish, German, and staged on the stages of these countries. The performance on this work received the greatest recognition in 1996, when it was nominated for several categories at once at the Golden Mask festival. At the same time, the author's play was released under the even more intriguing title "Yu." The following years, Olga Mukhina no longer created new works.
Features of creativity
Immediately after the premiere of the play "Tanya - Tanya" on the stage of Pyotr Fomenko’s theater, the author fell into the category of fashionable ones, and her critics interested her storytelling. So, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn immediately noted the phonetic feature of Mukhina’s plays. The play of sound in the speech of the heroes is given great importance. When talking, it is not the communication of information, but the release of emotions into space. Moreover, Olga Mukhina, whose plays often had interesting names, preferred in the narrative not to lead the viewer by the hand directly to understanding the main idea, but to use incomprehensible and confusing semantic connections.
Vasily Temnov called the play "Tanya - Tanya" "ambitious, elegant and sharp," the critic noted the apolitical and timelessness of what is happening. Heroes are ordinary people, they love, laugh, feel sad, and all this against the backdrop of a beautiful garden, which is somewhat reminiscent of Chekhov's scenery.
In a recent interview, Olga Mukhina admitted that she was temporarily in a creative impasse. She got married, she has two excellent children, but not everyone succeeds in combining the role of mother and writer. Her plans are to leave for her village, hide in a corner and start creating again.