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🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Hello everyone!
Today's guest is French theatre actress Audrey Mikondo.
She talks about theatre in Paris, Shakespeare in English, and when French and expat worlds mix.
Find tickets to their performance of Twelfth Night here, performed at the Arena de Montmartre, where I filmed this live walk show on Facebook.
Support the Earful on Patreon here.
And here's the Montmartre walking tour I did via Fat Tire Tours.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Hello everyone. You are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name's Oliver G. And this Thursday |
0:05.0 | episode of the show was brought to you by Fat Tire Tours. Now, hang around at the end of the episode. |
0:10.8 | I'll talk about the Montmart walking tour that I went on. They also do walking tours, not just |
0:16.1 | cycling tours. And I'll talk to you about that at the end of the episode. But remember, |
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0:30.8 | Why did I do it in an American accent? I do not know. |
0:33.9 | But today's episode I'm talking with Audrey Mikondo or Audrey Mikondo, a French woman who works |
0:41.0 | in the theatre. She's an actor in Paris. And I talked to, it was quite fun actually. They're putting |
0:46.3 | on a Shakespeare play. They're company Signet Theatre, Paris. You can look them up. They're |
0:51.2 | putting on Shakespeare in a beautiful kind of hidden arena in Montmart. |
0:56.0 | So I've been wanting to get into this arena for a long time and my chance came today |
1:01.0 | and I went into the walk show there. Maybe you have already seen it. I did it live on Facebook. |
1:06.0 | If not go and check it out to see exactly what we're talking about. |
1:09.0 | But Audrey was talking to me about being an |
1:11.9 | actor the difference between uh French and English theatre a little bit about Shakespeare as well |
1:18.3 | and the idea of what French people think about the expats scene in Paris so that whole |
1:24.9 | conversation we had it in a part called Square Nadar, N-A-D-A-R, which in itself is pretty hidden. |
1:32.1 | It's about a stone's throw from the Sacriker Cathedral, but you'll find very few tourists there, |
1:37.4 | even on a very busy day. So go and check that out. Check out the Ait de Montmart. And if you want to |
1:42.5 | look into seeing the Shakespeare play, it's only on for another four days. |
1:45.6 | It's 12th night. |
1:46.7 | Look up Cignette Theatre, C-Y-G-N-E-T, Theatre, Paris, and you should be able to find it. |
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