
Episode 1: Talking About Drugs (and Theatre) with Max Shulman
The Theatre History Podcast
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The Limits of Salvation in Madam X
Madam X is a play that uses drug addiction and it uses it to signal how low a person can go. The woman who got famous doing the play was this woman, uh, Dorothy Donley. It became a regular role for Sarah Bernhardt. And in fact, Bernhardt was given special permission while in America,. she was in America while Donley was performing in 1909.
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