Review: Bernhardt/Hamlet (Melbourne Theatre Company)
There's too much going on in Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet but actor Kate Mulvany exerts huge gravitational pull at its centre.
Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist since the 1990s, interviewing the likes of Sir Andrew Davis and Renée Fleming, and contributing to publications such as The Age and Opera (UK). Based in Melbourne, she’s passionate about opera, theatre and anything Baroque.
There's too much going on in Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet but actor Kate Mulvany exerts huge gravitational pull at its centre.
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