“Little Peanut and the Sneeze Theory”
2020
Experimental Theater/ Video. Duration: 45'
Premiere at Goethe Institut Hanoi, November 2020, Hanoi, Vietnam
Commissioned by Goethe Institut Hanoi, Vietnam
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Director: Linh Valerie Pham
Story-writer: La Thanh Ha
Composer and Music Improviser: Ha Thuy Hang
Producer: Trinh Nguy, Thao-Linh Dinh
Performer: Hyang Chu, Trinh Nguy, Red, K, Free, Phong, La Thanh Ha.
Sign Language Interpreter: Tong Thi Nga
Puppet Design&Making: Linh Valerie Pham, Hyang Chu, Trinh Nguy, K, Free, Thao-Linh Dinh, Red
Costume: TA An Yen
Photography: Khuelaa
"Little Peanut and the Sneeze Theory" is the second installment of "Dearest Little Peanut" - a series of puppet performances by Mat Tran Ensemble with Little Peanut, a young girl in blue cape as its main heroine. This installment explores Little Peanut at a tender time in life, facing difficult and unsolvable questions about self, collapses and saying goodbyes. This coming-of-age story is a love letter to the little humans (and the big humans who used to be little), to acknowledge and validate one’s experience of growing up and falling apart.
