Charlotte Ive

Writer, Director, Artist

United Kingdom

I am a writer, director and artist. I am the artistic director of my own theatre company, Scrawny Cat - we make productions committed to re-examining history from a queer, female perspective. As a writer, I create plays, screenplays and fiction. As an artist I work with a range of mediums including watercolours, ink, printing, embroidery and wire sculpture.

Portfolio
Television Series Pilot
03/02/2021
We Are Not Our Own

Ada Baillie is a plantation heiress sold off in marriage to Nicholas and forced to settle in London with her new husband. He is banking on the huge Slave Compensation Act pay out she will inherit to clear his debts. He has allowed her to bring her half-sister Anna with her as a companion and Anna’s mother, former enslaved woman Eliza and Becky, Anna’s sister, to work in his household. When Nicholas is found dead, Ada must go on the run with her prostitute lover Ladli while her sisters work to...

Theatre Play & Production
04/02/2021
At Once Before And After

Set in three different planes, At Once Before And After explores the way we wind threads into a narrative, the good stories we tell about ourselves and the dangers of those told about us. Three women, in three different scenes and three different styles yet somehow they are always the same, bound by their fates and the bonds they have with each other. In this extract, Amara and Elise use a storytelling style to tell the tale of their love and persecution.

Television Series Pilot
03/02/2021
We Are Not Our Own

London 1838, We Are Not Our Own is a historical mystery drama with a difference. Told from the perspectives of the people normally hidden in the shadows, it is a Queer, female focused period piece filled with diverse characters who defy the constrictions of their normal roles and drive the thrilling plot forward.

Short Story
03/02/2021
The Mermaid and the Bell

The Mermaid and the Bell is a short story inspired by British folklore around sunken towns and lost bells.

Theatre Play & Production
10/07/2019
What You Risk

This is an excerpt from What You Risk. Taking place in Berlin 1936, Greta is Jewish and in denial of the danger she faces, her lover Liezel is trying to convince her to escape. The rest of What You Risk is set in London in the same year. Sir Oswald Mosley was permitted to lead his British Union of Fascists through London’s East End. As it is now, the area then was a safe haven for refugees, immigrants and political activists. Since the Russian Progroms and the rise of the Nazi party in...

Theatre Play & Production Studio 180
09/23/2017
No Lone Zone - The Basement

Set in a Georgian town house that had been converted into artist's studio, No Lone Zone drew inspiration from it's location next to The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth. The museum was previously the location of The Royal Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane, or Bedlam as it was commonly known. The play was an exploration of the relationship between madness and violence. It was split into two halve which played simultaneously, one in the attic, one in the basement and the audience swapped over...

Theatre Play & Production
10/07/2019
What You Risk

What You Risk is set in London in 1936. Across Europe populist politics are on the rise, in the East End of London Sir Oswald Mosley is planning on leading his Far Right 'Blackshirts' through the streets to show any foreigners, refugees and immigrants that they are not welcome. But the East End has other ideas and comes out in force to stop him. This scene explores how one of the main characters, Polly, begins to move towards Mosley's political ideologies.

Theatre Play & Production Studio 180
09/23/2017
No Lone Zone - The Attic

Set in a Georgian town house that had been converted into artist's studio, No Lone Zone drew inspiration from it's location next to The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth. The museum was previously the location of The Royal Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane, or Bedlam as it was commonly known. The play was an exploration of the relationship between madness and violence. It was split into two halve which played simultaneously, one in the attic, one in the basement and the audience swapped over...

Theatre Play & Production Hazlitt Theatre
08/02/2018
The Countless

The Countless was commissioned by Hazlitt Theatre Kent for it’s Senior Youth Theatre. The vote to leave or remain in Europe had just taken place and in consultation with the group, I created a play which explored how powerless they felt about the decision whilst also playing on the folklore and mythology of the area surrounding the theatre. A few miles from Maidstone, where the theatre is located, there is a circle of stones, often called Countless Stones due to their arrangement being such...

Literary Fiction Novel
06/10/2021
Although Only Breath

Although Only Breath is a magic realist historical tale of one woman’s quest to rescue her brother from war. Set in Northern France during the First World War, Maëlle’s world is torn apart as the mysterious Apolline appears at her door in the middle of a storm. Apolline clutches an urn to her chest. In it, she says, beats the heart of Maëlle’s beloved twin brother Maneck, his life ruthlessly cut short in the carnage of the Western Front. Apolline tells her they must bury Maneck’s heart...