New to the Parish: Morgan Savidan moved to Dublin from Paris in 2021
Morgan Savidan a French-Indonesian actor and theatre-maker, moved from her family home in Paris for a two-year course at Gaiety School of Acting. Photograph: Alan Betson
Savidan, a French-Indonesian actor and theatre-maker, had moved from her family home in Paris for a two-year course at Gaiety School of Acting. There were surreal moments. “I was practising my tap-dance routines in a hostel room with seven people, at 1am. People were like, ‘Excuse me, Can you just stop?’ And I was like, ‘I know, I’m so sorry. It’s just my dance teacher is going to kill me if I don’t know this routine by tomorrow.
A room share had opened up in a classmate’s place in Inchicore. Gradually others in the class moved in. “We’re starting a cult!” she jokes. It’s a happy home. All the same, “it’s cold and mouldy”. Rent is per room. “People think it’s quite a good price for Dublin. But for the exact same as I pay for my room, I had a 30sq m apartment with a big balcony in Paris. I definitely did not expect Dublin to be so expensive for housing.
One of her first nights out in Dublin, alone near Grafton Street waiting to meet a friend, a stag-group started hassling her. “Then another group of Irish men walked by, in the opposite direction. They saw what happened and came and pretended they knew me, and told the others to f*** off. They were, ‘Are you good?’ Yep. And then they just left. That’s the first time someone has helped me, and not then tried to make a move. They just went on their merry way.
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