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By Hannah Story

Kate Mulvany returns to the stage after Amazon's Hunters to star as Sarah Bernhardt in Melbourne Theatre Company's Bernhardt/Hamlet

Actor and writer Kate Mulvany has lived with chronic pain since she was 10 years old. (Supplied: MTC/Eugene Hyland)

As a person living with disability, actor and writer Kate Mulvany can feel daunted by physically demanding roles.

But sometimes her unique physicality helps her to bring a character to life – for example, legendary French actor and director Sarah Bernhardt, who she is playing in her return to the stage after several years of high-profile screen roles, in the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) production Bernhardt/Hamlet.

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