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By

Olga Mukhina

Translated by

John Freedman

Author’s Note: This text was created according to the principles of verbatim. That is, it is an entirely documentary play. It is sampled, so to speak, from 15 interviews. It contains not a single phrase of my own unless it is the odd stage direction or a simple explanatory phrase. Even the incident with the window and the dog is the whole truth and nothing but. Believe me. All of this is life, like rain in July; this wintery snow is for you.

My heartfelt thanks go to: Mikhail Krylov, Yury Kolokolnikov, Pavel Derevyanko, Zhanna Tserulite, Mikhail Parygin, Lyuba Tikhomirova, Tikhon Pendyurin, Fyodor Lyass, Mitya Firapontov, Ilya Maximov, Dima Zemchenkov, Sasha Musakhanov, Yevgeny Kamenkovich, Mamontova & Dorogutin, O. Naumova, O. Martyanova, Valentina Borisovna Fyodorova, Lyubov Anisimova, the residents of Podberyozye, Gorodishcha and all my friends.

– MUKHINA

CHARACTERS:

M

SNOWSTORM – a freelance DJ

BLIZZARD – a VJ and a streetfighting man

MANIAC – a promoter and BASE jumper

VOLODYA – a policeman

W

SNOWFLAKE – brunette, a vamp and a TV star

LENOCHKA – blonde, cute, a media-planner

ORANGINA – redhead, a glamorous beauty, a designer

BUSHY-TAIL – light-brown hair, waitress, a beauty, a virgin

Television studio employees, journalists, café clients, guests at the home of Maniac, people on the street, soldiers, dancers, “Yo-Yo” the pet dog.