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SAINT JOAN – ONLINE!
Jul 15 – Dec 31 2020
What has happened to SAINT JOAN?
SAINT JOAN has been fully staged and is a complete production that was cut short hours before Opening Night, due to the Covid-19 restrictions on gathering. The cast and creative team created a beautiful production of this classic and we would like very much to share it with you. To that end, SAINT JOAN has been filmed and is available online. If you are a ticket holder or subscriber, you were sent a password to access the play. You will be able to watch it at your leisure, as many times as you would like, and we hope with whoever you were planning on bringing to the theater! Please feel free to share the password and link with those others that would have been your guest.
The link will be available for the foreseeable future so please don’t worry about your password expiring.
Questions? Please email our Box Office Manager, Kaya Hubbard at kayah@artswest.org.
Written by George Bernard Shaw (Nobel Prize-winning playwright)
Adapted by Corinne Magin
Directed by Mathew Wright
Tracing the life of Joan of Arc from the siege of Orleans, through her trial and recantation, and culminating with the tragedy that transformed into a legend, Saint Joan is an electrifying portrait of one of history’s most revered and revolutionary lightning rods. Fiery and timeless, Shaw’s masterpiece shines a fierce light on the limits of an individual in a society dominated by political and religious forces. Presented in a new adapatation, stripped-back staging directed by Mathew Wright, prepare to see Joan’s incendiary life shine brighter than ever.
Cast of Saint Joan. Photo: John McLellan
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SAINT JOAN | ONLINE
Directed by Mathew Wright
Nobel Prize-winning playwright George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Tracing the life of Joan of Arc from the siege of Orleans, through her trial and recantation, and culminating with the tragedy that transformed into a legend, Saint Joan is an electrifying portrait of one of history’s most revered and revolutionary lightning rods. Fiery and timeless, Shaw’s masterpiece shines a fierce light on the limits of an individual in a society dominated by political and religious forces. Presented in a new, stripped-back staging directed by Mathew Wright, prepare to see Joan’s incendiary life shine brighter than ever.
CREATIVE TEAM
Director – Mathew Wright
Scenic Designer – Christopher Mumaw
Lighting Designer – Ryan Dunn
Sound Designer – D.R. Amromin
Costume Designer – Jocelyne Fowler
Properties Designer – Jessamyn Bateman-Iino
CAST
Joan – Porscha Shaw
Archbishop and others – José Amador
Cauchon and others – Nik Doner
Dauphin and others – Devin Bannon
Dunois and other – Lee Yang
Warwick – Jose “Jojo” Abaoag III
For SAINT JOAN, we’re presenting seating “in the round,” meaning that audiences will get a view of the main stage from every angle. This seating arrangement is designed to heighten intimacy between the actors and the audience, with audiences in the northernmost seating area experiencing a special view of the theater and performance as a whole.
Note: Seating in the northern seating area is general admission only. Please arrive by 7pm to select your desired seats.
“Shaw’s play is about not heavenly triumph but human hypocrisy — how we crush the dreamer under our heel and then memorialize her […] a point still sharp as Joan’s sword and vivid as the fire that consumed her.” – Vulture
“in this 1923 play, written three years after Joan received sainthood, Shaw never goes for the didactic slam-dunk, even when the angels are on his side. Instead he revels in the complexity…a dialectic that’s weighty even as it crackles with wit.” – Variety