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Sarah B. Divine!

"Jam packed with theatrical trickery and the narative is fragmented in time and space into brief scenes linked and woven together through the use of a chorus. A tour de force of both writing and staging. And it's hilarious."

Village Voice

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy, Experimental

  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
In the 1850s in romantic Paris, Sarah Bernhardt is a girl going to dramatic school and sleeping in coffins. The play travels through her life with four difference actresses playing her simultaneously as she meets Oscar Wilde and other luminaries of the age. The story is told through the eyes of her neglected son who narrates the scenes aided by his guitar.
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"Jam packed with theatrical trickery and the narrative is fragmented in time and space into brief scenes linked and woven together through the use of a chorus. A tour de force of both writing and staging. And it's hilarious."

 Village Voice

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 7F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

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In the 1850s in romantic Paris, Sarah Bernhardt is a girl going to dramatic school and sleeping in coffins. The play travels through her life with four difference actresses playing her simultaneously as she meets Oscar Wilde and other luminaries of the age. The story is told through the eyes of her neglected son who narrates the scenes aided by his guitar.

$29.95

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