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Episode 1: Talking About Drugs (and Theatre) with Max Shulman

The Theatre History Podcast

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The Importance of Immersive Theater in Acting

Bernhardt creates the, the histrionics in Madam X that no American actress could reach. In order to hide her face as Madam X, she would wrap her face in this brown shawl,. You would never see someone do that today. She couldn't see her face and she would perform the kind of melodramatic heavings and weeping just with her body.

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