The National Theatre of Greece is awarded with two honorary awards at the57th Bitef festival in Belgrade for the production Goodbye, Lindita. The production and its director Mario Banushi awarded with the Special Award “Jovan Ćirilov” for the outstanding contribution to theatre art and the “Politika” Award for the best director.

According to jury of the special award “Jovan Ćirilov” is bestowed to Mario Banushi because: “With his masterful and delicate work with time, Banushi prolongs that moment so that his piece balances on the rope between life and death, community and solitude, mundane and sublime. The extended now is generous and let us, the audience join the situations on stage. Slowly and precisely, a sequence of associative images appear before our eyes and the author doesn’t haste to cut and edit them. They fade out into nothingness, from which they emerge, leaving us with the shades, memories, emotions, and unforgettable smell of incense. It is a brave artistic decision for such a young author. Although we highly evaluate Banushi’s directing, his work with the lights and music, and the performers on stage, Banushi’s talent, intuition, and craft in working with time and temporality stick out as an exceptional contribution to the performing arts.”

While the members of the jury for the “Politika” award decided unanimously that:
“In the play Goodbye, Lindita the boundary between the visible and invisible world is erased, the dead and the living share a common space, which can be understood as an expression of the idea of the eternity of the spirit, or the non-existence of real death.

Banushi's directorial approach brings emotional, dreamy, and poetically expressive glimpses of death and dealing with it”.

Details on the awards of 57th Bitef festival you can find here.

 

 

Latest updated: 12/10/2023