Play THE NATURE OF THE WIND

Director: Gildas ALEKSA Play: Amos OZ Scenography and lighting design: Aistis LANSBERGAS Music: Jokūbas TULABA Cast: Povilas BUDRYS, Matas DIRGINČIUS, Karolis KASPERAVIČIUS Translated from English by: Gytis KUDARAUSKAS Translated into English by: Nicholas de LANGE and Philip SIMPSON Ticket price: 10 – 20 Eur. Should I pursue my own dreams, or perhaps fulfill the ideals shaped by my parents? As the philosopher Kahlil Gibran said, parents are but bows from which their children as living arrows are sent forth. But as often happens, parents try to make their children like themselves, setting expectations beyond their ability to reach them. And then follows the inevitable feeling of shame, which we experience because we tried too hard. Amos Oz (Amos Klausner) – one of Israel's most famous writers and intellectuals, a prose writer, journalist, and winner of numerous prestigious literary awards, analyzes the relationship between a father and son of opposite characters and views in the short story "The Nature of the Wind". The father is a strict fighter for freedom who sacrificed his life and the warmth of home for work, and therefore expects the same from his son. The son is a sentimental, artistic soul born into a free society. This difference in characters influences their relationship and eventually leads to a tragic end. The play intertwines many still-relevant questions of family relationships: about suppressed and unshown emotions, the inability or impossibility to talk, disapproval of the life path chosen by offspring, and the importance of the opinions of others, when the thought "what will people say" is placed above everything else. Although the characters speak through the lips of men, the play raises universal questions intended for both sons and their fathers, as well as mothers and their daughters. "We are afraid to talk about the fact that we are dependent on our parents. But it is impossible to be completely independent – no matter what age we are, we will always remain children to our parents. Many things that come from the family restrict us and make us dependent. That is what I am talking about in this play," says director Gildas Aleksa. In 2019, director Gildas Aleksa was awarded the "Fortūna" statuette for the direction of the play "The Nature of the Wind".