![]() ![]() ![]() The poetry of Saint Joan is undeniable and, almost a hundred years on, challenging to audiences raised on the terse chatter in TV and movies. The script most likely led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925, “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.” He seized on this as an opportunity for an iconoclastic re-envisioning of the figure and it was a success. Shaw’s masterpiece, first performed in 1923, was written just three years after Joan d’Arc was canonized. In his program notes, director Tim Carroll confesses that he selected Saint Joan as his premiere production as the Shaw Festival’s Artistic Director because of the poetry in this historical epic. Steven Sutcliffe as Captain La Hire and Sara Topham as Joan in the Shaw Festival Production of “Saint Joan.” Photo: David Cooper. ![]()
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