Charlotte Pleasants is bringing Shakespeare’s classic works to modern audiences and forging her own creative path as an actor, producer, director and theatre company founder. Not only that, but she has taken on an additional challenge for herself by focusing on presenting English-language theatre productions in a French-speaking city: Paris, France.
Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, she earned a university degree with a double major in theatre and anthropology. After a family trip to Europe she made her way to Paris, settled in, and has been involved in the live theatre scene in the city ever since.
Charlotte has served as a producer at Paris Fringe, as the artistic director of the Tapis Théâtre, as well as a producer and performer at Cygnet Theatre. There, she participated in productions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2021), Lear (2020), Twelfth Night (2019), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2018). Most recently, she became a founding member of Alchemy Theatre and is co-directing and co-producing The Taming of the Shrew, which will be performed in a French château this summer.
On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Charlotte about her approach for telling a story written hundreds of years ago in a fresh way, her creative process when directing a play, and her focus on high levels of collaboration while working with an international cast.
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