Should I pursue my dreams or fulfill the ideals formed by my parents? As the philosopher Kahil Gibran said, parents are just bows through which children are launched into the world like arrows. However, as often happens, parents try to make their children like themselves, set expectations above their ability to achieve them. And then comes the inevitable feeling of shame we experience because we tried too hard.
Amos Oz (Amos Klausner) - one of the most famous living Israeli writers and intellectuals, prose writer, journalist, who won many prestigious literary awards, in the short story "The Nature of the Wind" analyzes the relationship between a father and son with two opposite characters and attitudes. The father is a strict fighter for freedom, life and the warmth of the home who sacrificed his work, so he expects the same from his son. The son is a sentimental guy with an artistic soul, born in a free society. This difference in characters affects their relationship and ultimately leads to a tragic end.
The show intertwines many issues of family relationships that are still relevant: about suppressed and not shown emotions, not being able to talk or not being able to talk, disapproval of the life path chosen by children, about the importance of the opinions of others, when the idea of "what people will say" is placed above everything else. Although the characters speak through the mouths of men, the play raises universal questions for 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. However, 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's what I'm talking about in this play, using the form of long monologues," says director Gildas Aleksa.
