TNM - ẤM de Kim Thúy

"Ấm" is a Vietnamese word with a singularly shifting meaning: it designates both heat and soul. This alliance of the carnal and the spiritual is at the very heart of Kim Thúy's first text for the stage. With her smiling sincerity, she invites us to share her attentive view of everyday intimacy.

A woman and a man meet, and the author allows us to discover this love as if we were observing the blossoming of a flower. But the relationship between K and Y is as elusive as the water of a spring, a river or the sea: everything becomes fluid between the Vietnamese woman and the Quebecer, the Oriental and the Westerner, the artist and the businessman. And in their midst unfolds the unsettling presence of a different child, Noé, her own son, a being all the more endearing for being enclosed within himself, but whose very presence sometimes creates a dull tension. Will he separate them or unite them?

Lorraine Pintal, who had the idea of approaching Kim Thúy so that her words could finally resonate at the TNM, is directing. She has called on the services of two highly evocative performers: Cynthia Wu-Maheux and Jean-Philippe Perras, accompanied by the dancer Jimmy Chung in the mute role of Noé.