"Daddy" is a play directed by Jonas Vaitkaus based on the play "The Father" (French: "Le Père") by the French novelist, playwright Florian Zeller, which is the second part of a stage trilogy ("Mother", "Father", "Son"). in 2012 the written play won three Mollière awards and was nominated for the prestigious UK Theater Awards, Evening Standard Theater Awards.F. Zeller's play is a testimony of the deformation of consciousness, its decay, the gradual loss of memory, and at the same time the loss of family, relatives, and the connection with the outside world. Father Andrė (Vytautas Anužis), the main hero of the play, is 88 years old, he is quite mature for his age, but shows signs of Alzheimer's-like disease. The disease progresses, it is inevitable. Everyday life, details, perception of space are gradually withdrawn from Andre's life, he turns into a plant, a "vegetable". Reality intertwines with images emerging from the subconscious. Old age, diseased consciousness and clear mind are fighting each other. From here comes a conflict with reality, relatives, and in general with human existence and nature.Andre increasingly remembers his dead daughter, the artist Eliza (Jelena Orlova), who is alive in her father's consciousness, having gone somewhere... The character of Eliza is associated with freedom, independence, and permeates all scenes. Hope is focused through the bright memory of the daughter, the thesis that art is more effective, more important than the household, necessary in order to control our instincts, the inner predator, the feeder. In the performance, the question is also important: what does a person pay attention to in the course of life, what priorities do they choose, how do they give meaning to their life and exit from it?Director Jonas Vaitkus: "In the genes (emotional memory field of nerve cells) of every person born without exception, there is an atavistic imprint, scratch, imprint of anthropophagy (humanitarianism)... That obstacle, test, a person has to overcome sooner or later, one way or another." This is the most important and responsible moment on the way to becoming a person. Is the abundance and variety of such encounters intoxicating and terrifying? We, under the influence of some forces, consciously or due to ignorance to be dazzled by the achievements of science and the possibilities of freedom, do not appreciate that slumbering indigo of man, the danger it poses. Hence the importance of culture and art, which are the antidote. This theme, albeit fragmentarily, is actualized in the play "Father".The performance also has clear allusions to the meaning of memory in a broad sense. Cultural, historical, personal memories... What do we tend to forget? What are uncomfortable, painful, traumatic experiences?.. Most likely. However, memory unconsciously, like a lifeline, grabs bright things - to survive.