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LACRIMA

Caroline Guiela Nguyen

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Exploring the dramatic and dazzling world of couture fashion, this ambitious, large-scale production spans continents and reveals the hidden world behind beauty and luxury.  

Paris, 2025. A prestigious fashion house receives an important commission: to create the wedding dress for a British royal princess.  

Bringing together a British fashion designer, a Parisian fashion house, three French lacemakers and a beadworker in Mumbai, it’s an intense and arduous process, all for a dress that will spend mere minutes in the spotlight.  

While, in the real world, everyone involved is bound to secrecy, in this gripping and cinematic show, their fates and efforts – their dreams and their tears – take centre stage.  

Caroline Guiela Nguyen is a French director and filmmaker whose work has received widespread international acclaim. She is the founder of the theatre company Les Hommes Approximatifs and Artistic Director of Théâtre National de Strasbourg.

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Running time: approximately 3 hours with a short pause, no interval (readmittance is allowed)

Age guidance: 14+

This show contains depictions of psychological and physical violence as well as suicide. 

 

Performed in French, with scenes in French Sign Language, Tamil and English, with English surtitles. 

Presented by the Barbican.

Images by Jean Louis Fernandez.

Video by Julien Bechara,

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Reviews

‘Caroline Guiela Nguyen weaves a story like a television series that unfolds with pleasure over three hours.‘
Télérama (France)
‘Caroline Guiela Nguyen achieves the feat of staging a choral fiction where stories intertwine over eight months and three locations…‘
Cult. News
‘A thrilling world-show like a TV series‘
LesEchos (France)

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