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In Europe, Greece is considered the birth place of theatre. Plays are very popular in Athens. The city has about 150 theatres, offering everything from operas, to classic dramas and avant-garde performances.

One of the stand-out hits of 2023 is a play called Goodbye Lindita, created and directed by Mario Banushi. At the age of 24, Mario Banushi s relatively unknown but Goodbye Lindita's success has clearly shown he's a bright, young talent to watch out for.

Mario explains how it all began: "Yannis Moschos, the director of the National Theatre, came and he called me and he said, 'I want you to direct something in the National Theatre, so you have to think for a new piece in one week'.

"And I was like what I will do in one week?" he adds. "Some months before my father died and my stepmother, I was thinking all the day about what [the] body becomes, what [happens] to the soul, I had it in my mind the funerals in Albania...and I said OK, I will talk about grief."

Mario says the play owes much of its success to the fact that it is personal while grief is a universal emotion that resonates with everyone. And because the play has no words, it is understood by people from all over the world.

(Photo: A scene from Goodbye Lindita by Mario Banushi. Credit: Theofilos Tsimas)

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