Festival d’Avignon
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An immersion in the confidential world of haute couture, the new saga by Caroline Guiela Nguyen, brought to the stage at the Avignon festival, led costume designer Benjamin Moreau to India, to discover Muslim embroiderers working for the great Western fashion houses.
Caroline Guiela Nguyen wanted to work on secrets. She could have anchored her new theatrical melodrama in the world of general intelligence. She chose another bureau of legends, that of haute couture and its countless little hands working in the shadows in the highest confidentiality, inheriting ancestral know-how of extreme meticulousness transmitted from mother to daughter, from father to son. An inexhaustible reservoir of metaphors that this sector of luxury, which allows the author to Tear of “weave” ensemble, “from one thing to another”, the fates of characters brought to “uncover” on long-silent truths. And then, «like food in Saigon [précédente pièce narrant l’exil des Vietnamiens en France, ndlr], Sewing is a subject that brings people together,” says Caroline Guiela Nguyen, who once again brings on board professional actors and ordinary people, including the Indians Charles Vinoth Irudhayaraj, Rajarajeswari Parisot and Vasanth Selvam, in the adventure. “Whether it’s Dinah, Liliane, Vasanth, Anaele, Vinoth, Nanii – that is to say, really very different people – there is an emotional connection to sewing, sometimes quite simply because people have been able to see their mothers
