The first play Anne-Louise Sarks will helm as artistic director and co-CEO of Melbourne Theatre Company is Bernhardt/Hamlet: a comedy about an actress living in turn-of-the-century Paris who decides, in her 50s, to cast herself in drama's most famous role.
"It's a piece about gender, and the stories that we tell, and about envisioning a new way," Sarks says of the play, written by American Theresa Rebeck (best known for musical TV series Smash).
It's not a stretch to say that Sarks sees herself in the character of Sarah Bernhardt, based on the French actor and theatre owner.
