Florian Zeler is a contemporary French novelist, playwright, screenwriter. Back in 2004 the playwright won the Prix Interallié for his novel The Enchantment of Evil. F. Zeller wrote a trilogy of plays "Mama. Dad. Son". in 2020 the playwright himself directed a motion picture based on the part of the trilogy "Daddy", in which the roles were created by Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and Zeller won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Dad has also been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and six British Academy Awards. The dramatist's works have also received theater awards - both "Mama" and "Dad" were awarded the prestigious Moliere Award in France. F. Zeler's biography includes more than ten written plays.
The daily life of Ana, the main character of "Mom", is a cocktail of sleeping pills, diazepam and alcohol, which she uses to try to push away depression, and the house and family that she has lived for until now. But how can a mother come to terms with the fact that her children have grown up and learn to live for themselves, take care of themselves, and love themselves?
According to the director of the play, K. Glušajev, the axis of the play is the theme of a woman and the angle of this theme, when a woman must be good to others: she must be a good wife, a good mother, a good daughter, but she does not know and does not find time how and when to be good to herself. In this way, the mother treats her closest people as weaker than they really are, often even using harmful means in an attempt to control them, presenting it as nurturing and caring. No one ever taught or emphasized this to my mother - it is a rather deep psychological wound in our society, in the finale of which a person is left alone with himself and his pain, he does not know how to proceed.
