Mario Banushi - Goodbye, Lindita

The second chapter of Romance Familiare by Mario Banushi, Goodbye, Lindita expresses an ineffable sense of loss and nostalgia through another maternal figure—this time an acquired one: Lindita, the father’s second wife. Drawing on memories of the Balkan funeral rites of his childhood, the performance silently explores an inescapable human experience.

In a domestic interior, a family mourns in silence, until events of an almost otherworldly nature open a window onto a world in which memory is intertwined with fantasy and reality with dreams. The audience becomes witness witness to an inner journey that attempts to answer the eternal question of how to say farewell to those we love most.

“The home is not a harbour, it is not where you arrive or return to; that home is where it hurts. And where you learn how to heal” (Dimitris Papanikolaou).