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Find Your Long Lost Auntie

Trà Nguyễn (Vietnam)

10 Jun 2026, Wed, 7pm

1hr

(Intermission: None)

Esplanade Rehearsal Studio (Meeting point: Theatre Studio Entrance, Level 4, 15mins before start time)

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Synopsis

Her research examines how “aunties”—intergenerational figures of care, labour and survival across Southeast Asia—encode resilience through posture, habit and repetition. Respected as informal safety nets, the aunties also enact a “paradox of strength”: those who shoulder communal burdens often refuse help. In this mock run of the game Find Your Long Lost Auntie, the audience is invited to wander in a somatic lexicon of care and refusal, exploring how bodies remember, misremember and re-choreograph survival.

Admission Age:
6 and above.
Language: English
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Artist Information

Trà Nguyễn

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Trà Nguyễn is a theatremaker working across text, movement and space. Her practice bridges contemporary performance, experimental writing and embodied research into memory, language and diasporic kinship.

 

A Fulbright scholar with an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon, Nguyễn founded The Run — A Theater Project, which builds experimental theatre infrastructure in Vietnam through production, training and critical discourse. She develops Verbatim Bodies, a methodology that frames theatre as a space for attention, translating gesture, breath and slow-time repetition into materials and modes of perception.

Date & Time

10 Jun 2026, Wed

7pm

Esplanade Rehearsal Studio (Meeting point: Theatre Studio Entrance, Level 4, 15mins before start time)
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