And that persistence, deadlier than the kind that earned Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren her infamous rebuke, led directly to Joan’s death at the stake. “Joan’s religious fanaticism, reaching us through the perspective of 500 years and then filtered through Shaw’s imagination, becomes the protest of a plain-spoken individual conscience.” - The Guardian Whatever she is, eventually Joan is bound to become an embarrassment to the male-dominated world she has turned upside-down. But who is she? The divinely-inspired savior of France? A dangerously clever charlatan? Or a pathetically deluded country girl? It all depends on your point of view. An avid socialist, Shaw regarded his writing as a vehicle for promoting his political and humanitarian views and exposing hypocrisy. It is a testament to the complexity of Bernard Shaws drama that scholars so thoughtful as Eric Bentley and Raymond Williams can hold his plays up to the light. At its center is the most remarkable teenage girl in history.
Saint Joan is Bernard Shaw’s greatest play. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday or click here to purchase tickets online.įrame/Works Discussion via Zoom: 7:00 p.m.
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