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MAMI – Eine Frau steht über einem Mann und hält diesen in einer Matratze.

MAMI – Eine Frau steht über einem Mann und hält diesen in einer Matratze.

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MAMI tells of mothers, of closeness and separation, of what is passed on. In a wordless, ritual visual theatre, Mario Banushi shapes personal memory into an intense experience between birth, desire and loss.

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MAMI  revolves around a word that means more than a person. Mother – in Mario Banushi’s work this word signifies origin and absence at once, care and burden, closeness and loss. The director and performer was born in Greece but spent part of his early childhood in Albania with his grandmother – a common practice at the time, particularly in large families, due to economic hardship – before returning to Greece at the age of six. In his latest creation, Banushi condenses personal memories into a poetic exploration of the relationships that bring life into being and shape it. MAMI  is a tribute to the women who raised us – and to the ambivalences bound up with this inheritance.

Drawing on his own experiences, Banushi creates a form of visual theatre of memory. The stage becomes a space of remembrance, familiar and uncanny at the same time. In silent, highly concentrated images, a chronicle of growing up unfolds – from early imprints of childhood through first experiences of love to the discovery of one’s own desire. Tenderness and loss, birth and impermanence, care and separation exist in a constant state of tension. Time appears stretched, suspended, as if following the inner logic of memory rather than a linear narrative.

A defining feature of Banushi’s work is the absence of spoken language. Bodies, gestures, music, light and colour carry the narrative. His productions emerge from an intense visual process and function like immaterial books that ask to be experienced rather than read. His stage spaces resemble estranged in-between worlds in which reality and symbolism imperceptibly merge. Rituals, offerings and everyday materials combine to form a poetics of the real, in which bodies, in their raw and unprotected presence, become images of striking emotional clarity. The music, strongly influenced by the Balkans, reinforces the ritual dimension of the performance, lending it an archaic yet contemporary quality.

Mario Banushi has gained international recognition for his wordless, visually powerful theatre works, for which he was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2026. With his debut Ragada and the subsequent productions Goodbye, Lindita and Taverna Miresia – Mario Bella Anastasia, he developed a distinctive form of visual theatre in which personal experience, ritual and collective memory intertwine. With MAMI, he continues this artistic trajectory, turning – after works shaped by farewell and mourning – towards life itself: towards birth, transmission, and the question of who carries whom, and at what cost.

Artistic Team

Mario Banushi – Concept, Director

Vasiliki Driva, Dimitris Lagos, Eftychia Stefanou, Angeliki Stellatou, Ennea Vangelis, Panagiota Υiagli  – Performance

Sotiris Melanos – Set and Costume Design

Jeph Vanger – Original Music and Sound Design

Stephanos Droussiotis – Lighting Design, Associate Dramaturg

Aimilios Arapoglou, Thanasis Deligiannis – Artistic Collaborators

Theodora Patiti – Assistant Director

Nikos Mavrakis – International Relations, Tour Management

Rena Andreadaki & Christos Christopoulos (TooFarEast) – Creation Period Production Management

Ioanna Papakosta (TooFarEast) – Line Production, Tour Production Manager

Konstantina Douka Gkosi (TooFarEast) – Auditions and Residency Coordinator, Tour Production Manager

Marietta Pavlaki – Lighting Designer on Tour

Kostas Chaidos – Sound Engineer on Tour

Sofia Theodorou – Set Assistant

Nikoleta Anastasiadou – Costumes Assistant

Michalis Lagkouvardos – Set Construction

Alaxouzoi brothers, Alexandros Loggos – Special Constructions

Giorgos Ierapetritis – Special Lighting Constructions

Aristidis Kreatsoulas (TooFarEast) – Rehearsal Technical Coordination, Stage Technician on Tour

Konstantinos Mavrantzas – Rehearsal Electrician

Stefanos Ntaoulas, Iason Papantoniou, Grigoris Zkeris, Paris Asimakopoulos – Rehearsal Technical Support

In collaboration with OMAZ Civic Non-Profit Company

Commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi

Co-produced by Berliner Festspiele, Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, FOG festival / Triennale Milano Teatro, & Espoo Theatre, Festival d’Avignon, Grec Festival Barcelona, Théâtre de Liège, Noorderzon Festival / Grand Theatre Groningen

Initial research and development were made possible with the support of the Onassis AiR Fellowship and the Centre Culturel Hellénique – Paris

Τhe presentation of MAMI is supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program

With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Greece

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