With stirring, intimate images, young Albanian shooting star Mario Banushi tells the story of a family that is bidding farewell to a loved one – entirely without words and with the emotional force of a Greek tragedy for the present day.
Goodbye, Lindita is about a fundamental human experience: the loss of a loved one. Inside a house, a family is grieving in silence, until a series of strange events opens a window to a world in which memory mixes with imagination and reality blends with dreams. This is the first time shooting star director Mario Banushi, born in Tirana in Albania in 1998, is presenting his work in Austria: Goodbye, Lindita creates stirring, intimate images to process the death of his stepmother – entirely without words, and with the emotional force of a Greek tragedy for the present day. Without ever hearing the characters speak, we bear witness to an inner journey in this visually powerful and personal play. How do we bid farewell to the persons we love most?
Concept, Direction Mario Banousi Dramaturgy Sofia Eftychiadou Set, Costume design Sotiris Melanos Music Emmanouil Rovithis Lighting design Tasos Palaioroutas Dramaturgy National Theatre of Greece Aspasia-Maria Alexiou Assistant direction Afroditi Kapokaki, Theodora Patiti With Chrysi Vidalaki, Babis Galiatsatos, Helene Habia Nzanga, Erifyli Kitzoglou, Katerina Kristo, Mario Banousi, Vassiana Skopetea, Alexandra Hasani Photography Theofilos Tsimas Video Nikos Pastras Production management Efi Panourgia Stage management Efi Christodoulopoulou Stage engineering Thomas Kazantzidis, Panos Koutsoumanis, Vassilis Stavroulakis Lighting technicians George Athanasiou, Georgios Kalantzis, Haris Vasilopoulos Sound engineering Dimosthenis Livitsanos Props management Michalis Adamis Painters and sculptors for scenery Mais Polyzos, Thenia Verikouki, Vladimiros Mitropoulos, Stavros Paneras, Dimitris Touris, Thanasis Fotinias Wooden constructions Michael Kostas, Simos Kazantzidis, Periklis Kalogiannis, Ilias Kalivas, Georgios Kandalepas, Ilias Plastiras Metal constructions Stavros Komninos, Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Labros Stafilas Sewing Efi Karantasiou, Theodora Vestarxi, Despoina Moutafi, Maria Spiliopoulou, Martha Charalabidou World premiere March 2023, National Theatre of Greece (Athens)
Production National Theatre of Greece (Athen)
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