DIRECTOR’S NOTE

The play Female Painters brings together three intertwined stories about struggle and faith in one’s own dream. Three women, each with a different destiny and character, face decisions that demand great sacrifices: one gives up her desire to please her mother, another gives up motherhood, while the third gives up an international career in order to remain with her people in a time of war.

These sacrifices bear witness to strength, perseverance, and integrity. For those who remain true to themselves, there is essentially no choice—there is only the path they must follow, regardless of obstacles, social constraints, and rigid gender roles.

The play raises the question of whether, in a fairer world, these women could have lived without such sacrifices, in a reality where they would not have had to choose between “either–or,” but would have had the right to “both–and.” Yet it was precisely this struggle that shaped their personalities, made them strong, and enabled them, through their determination, to light the way for others.

This is a play about remaining true to oneself and claiming the right to one’s own dream.