Olga
Olga is an old woman who lives alone and is taken advantage of by those around her. A young good-for-nothing, Rundis, joins this crowd. Olga is unconventional, however, and forces Rundis to question his own values. Olga and Rundis embark upon a unique and unsettling love story.
In a sensitive and touching way, without a trace of sentimentality, Ruohonen shows how two marginalized people find each other. Olga is also a story about what happens when the world around someone changes so quickly and profoundly that nothing is familiar.
The play has been translated into English, French (unauthorized draft version), German, Russian, Italian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Cantonese and Byelorussian. It has been performed at the Jaunas Theatre in Vilnius, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the Rough Magic Theatre in Dublin, the Janka Kupala Theatre in Minsk and the Landestheater Tübingen, Germany.
