A provincial girl flees to Warsaw to join a theatrical troupe, chasing freedom and disillusion on the stage.
Books mentioned in The Comedienne (10)
Consuelo by George Sand: “sat reading George Sand's Consuelo until a late hour”
Mazeppa by Juliusz Słowacki: “I selected from Slowacki's Mazeppa that prison-scene from the fourth act”
The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller: “how you played the part of Francis in The Robbers”
The March Bachelor by Józef Bliziński: “no one wanted to accept the role of Pawlowa in Blizinski's The March Bachelor”
The Iron Master by Georges Ohnet: “I should like to take the part of Clara in The Iron Master”
The Gypsy Baron by Johann Strauss II: “To-day, in the Gypsy Baron”
The Martyr by Adolphe d'Ennery: “They were to play The Martyr by D'Ennery, in which the title role... was invariably acted each year by the directress”
Don César de Bazan by Dumanoir and Adolphe d'Ennery: “They played such curtain-raisers as Don Cesar de Bazan”
Doctor Robin by Jules de Prémaray: “the role of 'Mary' in Doctor Robin which we are to present next week”
Master and Apprentice by Józef Korzeniowski: “The Master and the Apprentice... a finished type of a drunkard presented in broad and classical outlines”