The Soul of Trương Ba, in the Butcher’s Skin

In Lưu Quang Vũ’s masterpiece, the soul of the gardener Trương Ba is mistakenly placed into the body of a butcher. A painful struggle then begins between appearance and identity, between the desires of the body and the demands of the soul. Under the direction of French director Anne Bouvier, the play was created together with the artists of the Vietnam Youth Theatre — a genuine creative collaboration, not simply a ready-made production brought abroad.