Have you ever wondered why we miss our childhood home so much? Why do we want to go back to it so much? This performance is a return to a childhood space full of unanswered questions.
The Journey Home brings together different artistic fields: dance, acting, music and literature. The core of the performance is the relationship between parents and adult children and the effort to talk about what is painful, silent but real - what we dare not or do not know how to say to each other.
The scene is filled with live music and the telling of two stories that are concentrated in the same home. The first is the concept of freedom and love, based on the short story "Jonathan Livingston's The Seagull" by the American writer Richard Bach. The second is the theme of guilt and misunderstanding, which was explored by the creators of the play through personal experience during rehearsals and became the subject of a play by young Lithuanian playwright Mindaugas Nastaravičius.
According to director Vidas Bareikis, "Journey Home" is a play about childhood home, trying to think about what it is, when we leave it and why we come back: "Even though I live only a few kilometres away from my parents, I often think why is the 'journey home' so difficult? Where do the misunderstandings and differences between parents and children come from? What if one day we sat down and talked about everything? Yes, as the closest people," asks the director of the play.
The play clearly expresses the position of not only the children, but also of the parents who are alone at home. If the adult children speak in dance, then the parents speak in the organic texts of Nastaravčius, asking, "It is easy for you to leave. You can leave everything behind and go away. And then suddenly come back and say - good evening, here we are, did you miss us? What about us? Sit and wait?".
