The performance is for viewers aged 16 and over.
Performance without words.

Goodbye, Lindita focuses on a primal human experience, that of losing a loved one. In a house, a family mourns in silence, until a series of strange events opens a window onto a world in which memory is intertwined with fantasy and reality with dreams. Mario Banushi, a multitalented young artist who brings a personal, handcrafted visual world to the theatre, has been inspired by his own experiences and the burial customs and traditions of the Balkans to create, together with a cast of gifted actors, a poetic meditation on loss. Without ever hearing the characters speak, we become witness to an inner journey that attempts to answer the eternal question of how to say farewell to those we love most.

Banushi’s play is highly personal: it was prompted by the image of his dead stepmother “surrounded by people saying goodbye” and by the death of his father three days later. But what we see on stage is a strange mixture of the mundane and surreal. (…) Banushi makes great play of the way that families use telly-watching to nullify their emotions. At other moments Magritte came to mind: a door suddenly turns into a coffin, an arm miraculously appears from a wall as if the dead reach out to the living. We even get a strange final image of a corpse emerging from a dark tunnel to be greeted by a welcoming maternal figure.
Michael Billington, The Guardian

Banushi’s original project is an expression of a great sense of pace and imagery. With his performance, he leads the audience through the shocking landscape of his own pain and imagination, but without a clearly defined idea of where he wants to take us. Is this collection of his impressions just personal therapy or something more? Although it is not clear in this piece, it is clear, on the basis of this performance, that this director promises great things.
Andrej Čanji, seestage.org

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