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. Mulvany has severe scoliosis (a sideways curvature of the spine) and related chronic pain. "My body just seems to fit the shapes that Sarah Bernhardt could make and would make on the stage; the...