AVIGNON, France: A hugely moving debut drama about exile set in a Vietnamese restaurant has become a surprise hit at the world’s biggest theatre festival, with standing ovations every night and the audience in tears.
“Saigon” by Caroline Guiela Nguyen -- whose family fled what is now Ho Chi Minh City in 1956 -- has been hailed for shining a light on the suffering and sacrifice of Vietnamese emigres, whose fate has long been enveloped in silence in the United States and France.
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