Theatre in Paris: The thrills of being on stage in the City of Light
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Let's talk theatre.
This week on the show is Irish actor/playwright Hannah Coyle (who is also one of the Earful Tower tour guides!)
Hannah talks about the theatre scene in Paris, especially the English-language scene,
She also talks about Alchemy Theatre's forthcoming production of Three Sisters, which she personally reimagined from Chekhov's classic play. It runs at Théâtre de l'Opprimé (78 Rue du Charolais, 75012 Paris) from 9–14 December.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower. And in this episode, you're going to hear |
| 0:04.2 | Hannah Coyle talking about theatre in Paris, the exciting life of being on stage in the city |
| 0:12.9 | of light. You could call it the city of lights, really, given that we're talking about theatre. |
| 0:17.6 | I think we can get away with it. This episode and all the episodes brought to you by the supporters on Patreon and Substack and also the people who do our |
| 0:26.4 | walking tours and there's a surprise in here for your walking tour customers from the past |
| 0:32.7 | because Hannah might be a very familiar voice to you indeed. That's right. She's one of the Aftower |
| 0:37.9 | guides. So prepare yourself. We're talking theatre. We're talking Paris. And we're talking |
| 0:43.2 | life on stage. Anna Coyle, how you doing? I'm very well this morning. How are you? |
| 0:55.3 | Is it morning? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm very well today. How are you? |
| 0:59.7 | No, that was cruel of me. That was cruel of me. I'm also well. This is a good day. |
| 1:04.9 | It's fun to sit across from you again. Last time we talked about... |
| 1:08.6 | Latin Quarter? I've had some people tell me that they like that episode. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. People like your accent. Well, that's up to them. I will allow them to believe in that. |
| 1:20.2 | Can we begin on that again just quickly, talking about your accent where you're from? |
| 1:24.4 | Hollywood. I'm from Hollywood. California. Yes. No, I'm from Hollywood County Down. County Town? County Down. Okay, County Down. Okay. Which is in the north of Ireland. Okay. So it's just outside Belfast, which is the capital of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland. And you've been in Paris for... |
| 1:44.3 | Ten years. Ten years, just like me. Yeah. I wonder how similar these two episodes we've done have been, you know, if they were like, this is kind of ringing bells. Or maybe it's because we work together as well. Yeah, we've known each other well. Yeah. Okay, so, and then quickly, as I said in the introduction, you've also met a lot of Earful Tower listeners. |
| 2:04.1 | I have. Yeah. |
| 2:05.1 | On walks through Latin quarter, MoMA, and sometimes the Marais. |
| 2:09.3 | Yeah. Nice bunch. Delightful. Really? Yeah. It's, um, I, I, one of the things I love most about this job is that you just meet people that ordinarily |
| 2:19.7 | you would never cross paths with. |
| 2:21.5 | True. |
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