Caroline Guiela Nguyen
LACRIMA
Large-scale theater production
October 22 & 24-26, 2025 | BAM, Brooklyn, NY
Text and Direction by Caroline Guiela Nguyen with Dan Artus, Dinah Bellity, Natasha Cashman, Charles Vinoth Irudhayaraj, Anaele Jan Kerguistel, Maud Le Grevellec, Liliane Lipau or Michèle Goddet, Rajarajeswari Parisot, and Vasanth Selvam
Paris, 2025. A prestigious fashion house receives a most important commission: to create the Princess of England’s future wedding dress. For months, and in utmost secrecy, seamstresses, designers, workshop managers, and embroiderers will be hard at work between Paris, Alençon, and Mumbai… Until their lives take a dramatic turn. Villa Albertine resident Caroline Guiela Nguyen explores the absent narratives and characters that never make it on to the theatre stage. Having shown us the inner workings of a Vietnamese restaurant in Saigon and imagined the disappearance of part of humanity in her previous works, here, she uses fabric––woven from threads that connect people across generations and around the globe––as the primary material to talk about our world.
Caroline Guiela Nguyen, Director of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg (TNS), is a French director, author, and filmmaker. A significant voice in contemporary French theatre, Nguyen studied sociology and performing arts before attending the Théâtre National de Strasbourg drama school and founding her company, Les Hommes approximatifs. Her plays draw inspiration from real-life and personal stories, often featuring both professional and amateur actors from diverse social and geographical backgrounds.
Learn more about Caroline Guiela Nguyen and her works here.
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