© Jean Louis Fernandez
A project born of the desire to bring together actors from distant horizons, yet united by history, to present a shared story. SAIGON is the result of a long-term in-depth work in both France and Vietnam, in which every figure bears the marks left by the changes effecting our world.
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For SAIGON, Caroline Guiela Nguyen has brought together actors that are French, Vietnamese of French of Vietnamese origin, just like the characters they play in the production. Whatever their age, they share landscapes, faces, songs and a language that, for some, exists only as a memory.
The setting is a restaurant that alternates between Saigon in 1956 – the last year of the French leaving Indochina – and Paris in 1996 – when the Vietnamese government authorised people to return to their native land.
A place subject to the same nostalgia, suspended in space and time between contemporary France and ‘50s Saigon, where the characters are used to clashing, singing, drinking, dancing and loving, in an attempt to celebrate life, no matter what.
Duration: 200’ including one intermission
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ReadFor SAIGON, Caroline Guiela Nguyen has brought together actors that are French, Vietnamese of French of Vietnamese origin, just like the characters they play in the production. Whatever their age, they share landscapes, faces, songs and a language that, for some, exists only as a memory.
The setting is a restaurant that alternates between Saigon in 1956 – the last year of the French leaving Indochina – and Paris in 1996 – when the Vietnamese government authorised people to return to their native land.
A place subject to the same nostalgia, suspended in space and time between contemporary France and ‘50s Saigon, where the characters are used to clashing, singing, drinking, dancing and loving, in an attempt to celebrate life, no matter what.
Duration: 200’ including one intermission
Learn more
Booklet
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© Jean Louis Fernandez
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© Jean Louis Fernandez
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© Jean Louis Fernandez
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© Jean Louis Fernandez
Credits
SAIGON
text Caroline Guiela Nguyen
together with the entire artistic team
staged by Caroline Guiela Nguyen
with Caroline Arrouas, Dan Artus, Adeline Guillot, Thi Truc Ly Huynh, Hoàng Son Lê, Anne-Marie Ly-Cuong, Phú Hau Nguyen, Maurin Ollès, Yen Linh Tham, Anh Tran Nghia, Hiep Tran Nghia
artistic collaborators Claire Calvi, Paola Secret
set design Alice Duchange
costumes Benjamin Moreau
lighting Jérémie Papin with the help of Sébastien Lemarchand
sound and musical creation Antoine Richard with the help of Orane Duclos
compositions Teddy Gauliat-Pitois, Antoine Richard
dramaturgy and surtitles Jérémie Scheidler, Manon Worms
dramaturgy apprentice Hugo Soubise
translation Duc Duy Nguyen and Thi Thanh Thu Tô
costume production Aude Bretagne, Dominique Fournier, Barbara Mornet, Frédérique Payot, Pascale Barré
make-up and hair Christelle Paillard
sound assistant Orane Duclos
lighting assistant Sébastien Lemarchand
debut on 1 June 2017 at the Comédie de Valence – Centre dramatique national Drôme-Ardèche
a Théâtre national de Strasbourg production
coproduced with Les Hommes Approximatifs, Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, Comédie de Valence - Centre dramatique national Drôme-Ardèche, MC2: Grenoble, Festival d’Avignon, CDN de Normandie-Rouen, Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Centre dramatique national de Tours – Théâtre Olympia, Comédie de Reims – Centre dramatique national, Théâtre national Bretagne – Centre européen théâtral et chorégraphique, Théâtre du Beauvaisis – Scène nationale de l’Oise, Théâtre de La Croix-Rousse-Lyon, Domaine d’O – Montpellier, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II – Lisbon
with the financial support of the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, du Conseil départemental de la Drôme
with the support of the Institut français à Paris as part of the Théâtre-Export programme, the Institut français del Vietnam, the University of Theatre and Cinema of Ho Chi Minh, and of La Chartreuse, Villeneuve lez Avignon – Centre national des écritures du spectacle
text awarded by the Commission nationale d’Aide à la création de textes dramatiques – ARTCENA
with the participation of Jeune théâtre national
sets created in the workshops of the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe
With the support of
A show in French and Vietnamese with Italian e English surtitles
Until row 5 of the stalls, the readability of the English surtitles is not optimal
Tickets
Stalls full price € 40 | For the young and elderly (under 26 or over 65) € 23
Balcony full price € 32 | For the young and elderly (under 26 or over 65) € 20
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FESTIVAL SUBSCRIPTION 2 SHOWS
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FESTIVAL SUBSCRIPTION 4 SHOWS
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