Date: March 6, 2025 - March 8, 2025
Location: Greece
Accessibility
The show will be held according to universal accessibility standards in collaboration with the cultural organization liminal. In particular, they include:
- Greek surtitles for deaf and hard of hearing people
- tactile tours of the stage and audio descriptions for visual impaired people
I have always said that birth is love in reverse. Mario Banushi
About the show
If in his previous works, the theme was mourning, in “MAMI” Mario Banushi investigates the source of life. For in Banushi’s personal mythology, the almost homonymous words “mami” and “mam” become identical. Mami, as in mother. Mam, as in food. One pulls out one’s heart and offers it to another like a warm loaf of bread.
Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, Banushi creates an unholy shrine to the mother-child relationship. To celebrate it. To exorcise it. To fill it with vows and curses. To fall in love with it. For, as he himself notes, “I have always said that birth is love in reverse.” The stage becomes a landscape of memory. As eerie as it is familiar. The performers, immersed in silence, create moments of profound emotion and urge us to recognize and confront our own memories, our own relationships, and the emotional legacy we carry. This breakout director’s new creation is a visual poem about the mother-child relationship. A show that is a tribute to the women who nurtured us.
Info
March 6th, 2025 h 20.30
March 7th, 2025 h 20:30
March 8th, 2025 h 20.30
Onassis Stegi
Athens, Greece
Info and tickets
Mario Banushi
Mario Banushi has made an impressive entrance into the theater world over the previous two years of being active in the field. Following his first play, “Ragada” (2022), he collaborated with notable organizations in Greece and composed two works that helped him gain international recognition: “Goodbye, Lindita” (National Theatre of Greece, 2023) και “Taverna Miresia―Mario, Bella, Anastasia” (Athens and Epidaurus Festival, 2023). From 2023 to date, his works have been presented in over ten countries, from Germany to Australia and from Italy to Sweden, at major festivals such as Festival de Otoño (Madrid, Spain), Teszt Festival (Timisoara, Romania), Adelaide Festival (Australia), Brandhaarden Festival at the International Theatre Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Fast Forward Festival (Dresden, Germany), and BITEF (Belgrade, Serbia).