| Year and length: | 2026, 55’ (world premiere) |
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| Concept and direction: | Μario Βanushi |
| With: | Mario Banushi, Xenia Dania, Rita Litou, Aulona Lupa |
| Music composition and sound design: | Emmanouel Rovithis |
| Set, costume and light design: | Mario Banushi |
| Direction assistant: | Theodora Patiti |
| Photography: | Mario Banushi, Angelos Barai |
| International relations, production and tour management: | Nikos Mavrakis – TooFarEast |
| Line production: | Ioanna Papakosta - TooFarEast |
| Subtitles translation and adaptation by: | Matilde Vigna |
| Production: | La Biennale di Venezia, Onassis Stegi, The Coronet Theatre, Noorderzon Festival, Mario Banushi, TooFarEast |
| Thanks to: | Gerasimos Kappatos and Kappatos Gallery, Chryssi Vidalaki and Theatro sti Sala, Maria-Nefeli Chalari, Alexandra Hasani, Myrto Stamatopoulou, Pinelopi Tsoutsouva, Andreas Voukenas and Andy Xhuma |
| Co-production: | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain |
Theatre
Mario Banushi - Chapter 1: Ragada
Description
A leading figure of the new Greek theatre scene, Mario Banushi—awarded with the Silver Lion by the Biennale—presents, for the first time concurrently, the trilogy that brought him immediate recognition: Romance Familiare.
Ragada, Good Bye Lindita, and Taverna Miresia are the three chapters of a landscape of memory rooted in ancestral rites and traditions linked to Banushi’s Albanian childhood—a landscape entrusted, more than to words, to evocative images suspended between dream and reality, and charged with an emotional intensity that transforms intimate and personal themes—bonds and affections, a sense of loss and pain, nostalgia—into universal poetry.
Ragada, which in Greek means a tear or fissure, indicating a scar that may fade over time but never entirely disappears, tells the story of the mother, a woman who emigrated to Greece from Albania together with her husband and children. It is Banushi’s debut work, presented in an Athenian apartment during the lockdown in the form of fragments, now recreated specifically for the Biennale.