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Hailed by the Guardian as 'a rising star who represents the new face of Greek theatre', actor, playwright, and director Mario Banushi will be joining us on the stage of the Taylor Institution Main Hall on Monday 13 May, at 5 pm. Still in his early twenties, Mario Banushi has been praised by international critics for his trilogy 'Ragada', 'Goodbye, Lindita', and 'Taverna Miresia: Mario, Bella, Anastasia'. After sold-out repeated runs at the National Theatre of Greece and the Athens Epidaurus Festival, his works are now received with enthusiasm in international festivals around the world.
In his physical theatre Banushi creates hyperrealist worlds, interior spaces where the familiar and the uncanny intertwine, memory meets grief, and quotidian scenes merge with folk rituals and community memory. In this open seminar and Q+A, Banushi will explain how he develops his pieces through autobiographical archives, collective memory and trauma, as well as an insistence on the performers’ affective interaction during the performance. Sharing material from recent and forthcoming works he will also discuss his other major themes: family and kinship, gender, Balkan and Greek-Albanian identity, loss and survival. He will talk about today’s vibrant Greek theatre scene, but also the challenges of working as part of it.
All welcome. No fee required. Please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/NJHabszhVb
Mario Banushi @ Oxford is brought to you by the Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
More on Mario Banushi’s work:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/06/50-day-squat-athens-hotbed-european-theatre-nazis-kushner
https://natashatripney.substack.com/p/theatre-of-the-thin-place-mario-banushi
and the artist’s interview to the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0g0fm84
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Taylor Institution Library, Oxford, United Kingdom
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