Time & Date
Tickets
Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org
Onassis Stegi Friends presale - Phase 1: from 20 SEP 2024, 17:00
General presale - Phase 1: from 23 SEP 2024, 17:00
The number of tickets available for performances included in this first phase of presale is limited. The general release date for all tickets will be announced on each respective performance's page.
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Accessibility services
The performances on February 27th and 28th and March 1rst will be held according to universal accessibility standards in collaboration with the cultural organization liminal. In particular, they include interpretation in Greek sign language and Greek surtitles for deaf and hard of hearing people, as well as tactile tours of the stage and audio descriptions for people with visual impairment.
Accessibility services are provided with the support of the Europe Beyond Access network, co-funded by the "Creative Europe" program of the European Union.
Please contact infotickets@onassis.org or call 213 017 8036 to book universal accessibility tickets.
Introduction
"My mother brought me into the world along with thousands of other children. She was a midwife". MAMI, a hymn for all the women who raised us.
Photo: Mario Banushi
Creator of a stage language all his own, the 26-year-old Albanian-born Mario Banushi is already touring the world with his first plays, "Goodbye, Lindita" (2023) and "Taverna Miresia—Mario, Bella, Anastasia" (2023), and is hailed internationally as the wunderkind of Greek theater. If, in his previous works, the theme was mourning, in "MAMI" it is the source of life. For in Banushi’s personal mythology, the almost homonymous words “mami” and “mam” become identical. Mami, as in mother. Mam, as in food. One pulls out one’s heart and offers it to another like a warm loaf of bread.
“I have always said that birth is love in reverse.”
Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, Banushi creates an unholy shrine to the mother-child relationship. To celebrate it. To exorcise it. To fill it with vows and curses. To fall in love with it. For, as he himself notes, “I have always said that birth is love in reverse.”
The stage becomes a landscape of memory. As eerie as it is familiar. The performers, immersed in silence, create moments of profound emotion and urge us to recognize and confront our own memories, our own relationships, and the emotional legacy we carry.
This breakout director’s new creation is a visual poem about the mother-child relationship. A show that is a tribute to the women who nurtured us.
Photo: Stephie Grape, Concept: Mario Banushi
-Mario Banushi
Credits
Supported by the Onassis Stegi “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program.
