RomaEuropa Festival 2018
Caroline Guiela Nguyen • les Hommes Approximatifs
Saigon
This is where Caroline Guiela Nguyen, the acclaimed young director of the French scene takes us together with her company, les Hommes Approximatifs. 11 actors on stage (French, French of Vietnamese origin, and Vietnamese) embody the invented voices of men and women marked by history and geography. Each meeting is helpful in sharing landscapes, faces, songs and languages that no longer exist anywhere but in their memory and the place they have built to keep it alive.
This is how Saigon investigates the post-colonial identity with poetry and delicacy when its roots become a distant memory incarnated in an ethnic restaurant, suspended between today’s France and 1950s Saigon, forever detached from reality.
direction
Caroline Guiela Nguyen Artistic
collaboration
Claire Calvi Set Alice Duchange
costumes
Benjamin Moreau
lights
Jérémie Papin
sound
Antoine Richard
musical composition
Teddy Gauliat-Pitois, Antoine Richard
dramaturgy
Jérémie Scheidler, Manon Worms
translations
Duc Duy Nguyen, Thi Thanh Thu Tô
script advisor
Nicolas Fleureau
with
Caroline Arrouas, Dan Artus, Adeline Guillot, Thi Truc Ly Huynh, Hoàng Son Lê, Phú Hau Nguyen, My Chau Nguyen Thi, Pierric Plathier, Thi Thanh Thu Tô, Anh Tran Nghia, Hiep Tran Nghia
Duration 3 h 20′ with one intermission (20′)