« Theater is not dead ! » It was the young Charlotte Issaly who proclaimed it, and the reference to the punk movement is anything but accidental. That theater is not dead, the actress, aged 25, is its living incarnation. We noticed her straight away, in two shows by Sylvain Creuzevault, The Aesthetics of Resistancebased on the book-summary by Peter Weiss (which will be performed at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, in Paris, in March), and Edelweiss [France Fascisme]in which she played, among a whole constellation of French fascists, Robert Brasillach (1909-1945). In both cases, she stood out with her irrefutable presence and the depth of her playing. Enough to earn her an avalanche of proposals: between now and January 2026, she will be on the bill for no less than six shows. .
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The punk slogan, and the rage for life that it expresses, is not, for Charlotte Issaly, a bourgeois coquetry in need of revolt. The young woman has come a long way. From“a violent family environment”which she fled as soon as she could, at the age of 15, taking refuge with friends or sometimes living on the street, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). Theater and art in general came very early, “like a lifeline, in the strict sense of the term”she said. “I discovered theater in middle school, at age 11, when my class worked on Cyrano de Bergerac. Everything crystallized for me around this room: I realized that it was not normal to be beaten in your family. Cyrano saved me: whenever I was feeling bad, I learned entire passages by heart, and I overcame what happened to me. Why Cyrano? It’s someone who has a deformity, who doesn’t feel like they belong to the same world as others and who chooses language to get out of it. It’s my viaticum in life, this room. »
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