Syrian director Samir Hussein revealed some features of the series “Wills of the Cactus”, written by Fadi Hussein and directed by Samir Hussein.
Hussein said in an interview with the “Fuchsia” website that he witnessed a group of elements that attract work, the first of which is the producing company represented by producer Hussein Fakhr El-Din, and the artist Rana Al-Adham and the facilities she provided to make respectable work.
He added that the text is wonderful, adapted from Shakespeare’s masterpiece “Macbeth”, which is a social, psychological and police work, its characters are very turbulent and live in a state of despair and emptiness, and there are paradoxes and surprises throughout the work.
Hussein explained that he had been consistent with the writer since the beginning of his writing of the text, and there was uninterrupted communication, with a glimpse and comfortable writer, and he eased a lot of the burden on the director and the producing company through his understanding of the play and its formulation in line with the current reality.
The Syrian director continued, “It was an important opportunity for any director to keep pace with writing a text from the beginning, unlike ready-made texts that require effort and effort to work on and modify.”
On his choice of humanitarian topics in his works such as motherhood, slums and people of determination, he explained that he belongs to the street, and that he grew up in a place that includes all the contradictions in the world. Pointing out that the director must have knowledge, culture, and knowledge of what he will capture, because art is a summary and selection of a group of topics and phenomena affecting people’s conscience, and the “Cactus Commandments” includes most of these details.
In conclusion, he pointed out that the viewer searches for his image in the mirror, and art must select the things that mean the viewer and reflect his concerns, and that these concerns are shared in order to reach the audience.
