Oscar Wilde scattered lilies in the path of this actress during a performance and wrote the play Salomé for her to star in. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this French stage actress famous for her role as Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux Camélias. Her “golden voice” was praised by Victor Hugo.
ANSWER: Sarah Bernhardt [or Henriette-Rosine Bernard]
[10e] Alphonse Mucha made a poster advertising Bernhardt’s role in a Paris production of a play named after this mythological figure, who kills her children after her husband, Jason, plans to marry another woman.
ANSWER: Medea
[10m] A critic writing for a newspaper in this city wrote that in Bernhardt’s roles, “enchantment is smothered in artifice.” The cofounder of this city’s “Art Theater” developed a namesake system that grew into method acting.
ANSWER: Moscow (The critic is Anton Chekhov. The cofounder is Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski.)
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