[INV] ‘MOTHER DOESN’T KNOW MNEMOSYNE’ Trà Nguyễn (Vietnam) [SHOW 1]

‘Mother doesn’t know Mnemosyne’ is a short play that inquires into memory, the fractured legacies of motherhood, history and identity. Evoking the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, it draws upon Tra’s personal memory and intergenerational trauma against the backdrop of Vietnam’s complex socio-political landscape. With a slow place and much silence around the repetitive action of the classic children’s game hopscotch, it mediates and also resists coherence. 

It is a play that asks: “How do we reconcile the fragments of our past with the demands of the present?”

Photo credit: Camille Blake, for Forecast Festival, Berlin, March 2025