An internationally hailed stage presentation as the extraordinary Sarah Bernhardt:

Written and performed by Connie Clark

(Performance running time: one hour 45 minutes plus intermission)

Reviews from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe:

"There is many a legend  about Sarah Bernhardt. Her extravagent life and powerful personality thrilled her audiences like no other performer before or since. In her one-woman show,  Connie Clark was believably this woman. From the moment she stepped on to the stage, out came fire and passion, wit, extravagance of glance and gesture, and  eloquence -- torrents of it!  For the whole of the show, I was enthralled by this exhuberant, rich and joyous personality."
-- The Stage, United Kingdom

"Connie Clark as Sarah Bernhardt achieves the impossible -- she captures the legendary silken-voiced goddess of the 19th century . . . a beautifully  structured script."
-- The Scotsman, Edinburgh (1994)

"Connie Clark's one-woman show is a triumph that her subject would be proud of.  Intimate and warm . . . the energy is quite breathtaking, the performance mesmerising -- a rare theatrical gem. 
Rating: ***** "
-- The Evening News,  Edinburgh

“Clark acts with poetry and passion, bubbling like champagne at certain moments and searching out subtler moods deep in herself as she embodies the more sombre moments of her subject’s life. She covers the whole span of Bernhardt’s experiences, retelling the celebrated anecdotes with gusto and even re-enacting some of the great melodramatic performances. Connie Clark makes it clear why Bernhardt so enthralled her age.”
-- The Scotsman, Edinburgh (1998)

From a performance at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at  Lincoln Center: "She was magnificent! Few could hold a mixed audience with such intensity -- diction, emotions -- poise, delivery, body grace."

Connie Clark lives in western North Carolina in the U.S., and has performed  Sarah in the U.S., England, Scotland and Norway. For performance and lecture booking information, contact Connie Clark. 

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