THE Mario Banushicreator of tender spectacles and emotional images, and his new international co -production on the Roof. “My mother brought me to the world and thousands of other children. It was a midwife. “ Mami, a show-anthem for all the women who raised us.

Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, 26 -year -old Albanian descent Mario Banushi, the creator of a completely his own stage language, in Mami, who premiered on February 6th on the roof before embarking on his international journey, gives us a memorable life. Because in Banushi’s personal mythology, the almost homogeneous words “mam” and “mam” become identical. Mami, like mother. Mam, like food. Someone pulls out his heart and offers it to the other as a loaf of steaming bread.

In the show, the central scene of the roof turns into a memory landscape. Familiar and, at the same time, spooky. The interpreters, immersed in silence, make events of deep emotion and motivate us to recognize and face our own memories, our own relationships and the emotional heritage we carry.

Mario Banushi is already touring the world with his first works, Goodbye, Lindita (2023) and Taverna Miresia-Mario, Bella, Anastasia (2023), and is internationally welcomed as the Greek theater child. And while the subject in his previous performances was mourning, in Mami he sets up an unnecessary sacred in the mother -child relationship. To praise her. To exorcise her. To fill it with tams and anathema. To fall in love with her. Because, as he notes: “I always said that birth is an inverted love.”

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Mario Banushi confesses for the show: “When I was about a year old, my mother was forced to leave me with my grandmother, Albania, and leave. Until my thirteen, “Mami” I was shouting at my grandmother. When my mother took me to Athens with her, I grew up in the apartment over the oven where she worked, with the smell of freshly baked bread.

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I grew up with many women. I grew up with young and older women. I grew up with more than one mothers. This show is for them: a wish, a prayer to the weight that the word “mom” carries both for the one who listens to it and the one who says it. Who takes care of who – I never understood this complex relationship. And I will not even understand it. But I try to unwind her like an umbilical cord, like the viscera that connects life to her roots. ”
The new creation by the director-discovery is a visual poem about the mother and child’s relationship. A-reaction to the women who fed us.

Contributors

Arrest & Director: Mario Banushi

Interpret: Panayiotas Giaglis, Vassiliki Driva / Katerina Christos, Dimitris Lagos, Angeliki Stellatou, Happiness Stefanou / Elia Koukouzelis and Fotis General

Scenery & costume: Sotiris

Music Composition & Sound Design: Jeph vanger

Lighting & Partner Design in Drama: Stefanos Drousiotis

Art Associates: Emilios Arapoglou, Thanassis Deligiannis

Assistant Director: Theodora Patiti

International Relations & Tour Organization: Nikos Mavrakis – Toofareast

Production Organization: Rena Andreadaki & Christos Christopoulos – Toofareast

Production: Ioanna Papakosta – Toofareast

Hearing & Residency Coordinator: Constantine Doukas Gossi – Toofareast

Tour Light: Marietta Pavlakis

Scenery Assistant: Sophia Theodorou

Costume Assistant: Nicoleta Anastasiadou

In collaboration with the Smooth Urban Non -Profit Company

Assignment & Production: Onassis Foundation

Co -producers: Berliner Festspiele [Γερμανία]Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe [Γαλλία]Fog Festival / Triennale Milano Teatro [Ιταλία]& Espoo theater [Φινλανδία]Grec Festival Barcelona [Ισπανία]Noorderzon Festival / Grand Theater Groningen [Ολλανδία] & others to be announced shortly

Initial research and development was carried out with the support of Onassis Air Dramaturgy Fellowship and his Center Culturel Hellénique – Paris (France).

It is supported by the Onassis Foundation’s “Extraversion” program.

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Representation information

Onassis Foundation
Syngrou 107
Central Stage March 22 2025
Thursday to Saturday, 20:30, Sunday, 14:00
Duration: 75 minutes

The show includes naked and is suitable for people over 16 years of age.

Tickets

Normal ticket: 18 €, 22 €, 28 €
Reduced ticket, friend, neighborhood resident: 20% discount on regular ticket price
Friends 5-9 people: 10% discount on the price of regular ticket
Unemployment, Disabled, Disabled: 10 €
Limited visibility ticket: 50% discount on regular ticket price
Group bookings at [email protected]

Online tickets

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Disabled ticket line

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Ticket Tickets in Hood (107 Syngrou Syngrou)

Roof funds operate only on the days of performances

Accessible performances

The performances on March 6, 7 and 8 will be presented in conditions of universal accessibility, in collaboration with the Liminal Cultural Organization. In particular, they include interpretation in the Greek sign language and hypertension for deaf and hearing hearing, as well as a tactile tour of the stage and acoustic description for people with visual damage.

Accessibility services are provided with the support of the Europe Beyond Access network, co -financed by the European Union’s “Creative Europe” program.

For ticket reservations as part of this accessibility service, please contact [email protected] or call 213 017 8036.

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Photos: © Andreas Simopoulos