Вот что писал Джон Мюррей в «Ле Голуа» от 5 июня 1879 года: «Когда в ответ на громкие призывы появилась обессиленная мадемуазель Бернар, опираясь на Муне-Сюлли, ей устроили овацию, не имевшую аналогов в истории английского театра».
На следующий день «Дейли телеграф» заканчивала свою хвалебную критическую статью следующими строками:
«Clearly Mile Sarah Bernhardt exerted every nerve and fibre and her passion grew with the excitement of the spectators, for when, after a recall that could not be resisted the curtain drew up, M. Mounet-Sully was seen supporting the exhausted figure of the actress, who had won her triumph only after tremendous physical exertion and triumph it was however short and sudden».[1].
«Стандард» заканчивала свою статью так:
«The subdued passion, repressed for a time until at length it bursts its bonds, and the despairing, heart broken woman is revealed to Hippolyte, was shown with so vivid reality that a scene of enthousiasm such as is rarely witnessed in a theatre followed the fall of the curtain. Mlle Sarah Bernhardt in the few minutes she was upon the stage (and coming on it must be remembered to plunge into the middle of a stirring tragedy) yet contrived to make an impression which will not soon be effaced from those who were present»[2].
«Морнинг пост» писала:
«Very brief are words spoken before Phedre rushes into the room to commence tremblingly and nervously, with struggles which rend and tear and convulse the system, the secret of her shameful love. As her passion mastered what remainded of modesty or reserve in her nature, the woman sprang forward and recoiled again with the movements of a panther, striving, as it seemed to tear from her bosom the heart which stifled her with its unholy longings, until in the end, when terrified at the horror her breathings have provoked in Hippolyte, she strove to puli his sword from its sheath and plunge it in her own breast she fell back in complete and absolute collapse. This exhibition marvellous in beauty of pose, in febrile force, in intensity, and in purity of delivery, is the more remarkable as the passion had to be reached, st to speak, at a bound, no performance of the first act having roused the actress to the requisite heat. It proves Mlle Sarah Bernhardt worthy of her reputation, and shows what may be expected from her by the public which has eagerly expected her coming».[3].
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