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Caroline Guiela Nguyen & Théâtre national de Strasbourg LACRIMA
I first saw LACRIMA at the Avignon Festival in 2024. I queued for hours in the heat, deeply anxious I wouldn’t get a ticket, standing in a haze of cigarette smoke, and almost immediately afterwards invited the company to bring the work to Perth Festival. The performance was breathtaking and the response from the audience was electric. Created by the extraordinary writer and director Caroline Guiela Nguyen, LACRIMA is exceptional international theatre: precise, rigorous and deeply human. At a time when global forces are discussed at scale but the confronting truth of their human impact is often diminished, this work insists on attention, care and moral complexity. It exposes how global power and disparity are experienced in intimate, everyday ways, cutting through abstraction to reveal lived consequence rather than theory. Perth Festival exists to bring audiences into contact with theatre that crosses borders and carries lived reality with integrity. I felt LACRIMA belonged in this Festival the moment I saw it. And finally, it has arrived in Perth.
FRANCE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SEASON 6 – 10 Feb Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA Yandilup / Perth Duration 2hrs 55mins including a short pause, no intermission Fri & Sat 7pm Sun 5pm Mon & Tue 7pm Join us after the show on Mon 9 Feb for a Q&A session. Hear directly from the artists and creators of the work. Performed in French, Tamil and English with English surtitles
Anna Reece Artistic Director
↗ Auslan performance Mon 9 Feb ↗ Tactile tour and audio described performance Tue 10 Feb
This show contains depictions of psychological and physical violence as well as references to suicide.
Suitable for ages 14+
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