Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

Sarah secured a contract at the Théâtre de L’Odéon where Sarah Bernhardt began performing in 1866. 1911: La Dame aux Camélias (Lady of the Camelias – Camille in the U. She even traveled to Cuba and performed in the Sauto Theater in Matanzas in 1887.

ʁa bɛʁ. nɑʁt]; c. Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas.