She heard voices, wore armor, and terrified every man in power. You won't believe what they did next.
Josie Rourke directs Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's electrifying classic. Performed at the Donmar Warehouse, and part of the NT Live series of broadcasts.
Acting
Arterton's Joan: naive, steel-spined, heartbreaking, never saintly caricature.
Direction
Rourke's stripped staging puts six men in suits vs. one woman in armor.
Writing
Shaw's 1923 dialogue still eviscerates how power co-opts then destroys rebels.
Director
Tony Grech-Smith
Gemma Arterton
Joan
Matt Bardock
Baudricourt/D'Estivet
Rory Keenan
Steward/The Inquisitor
Richard Cant
Poulengey/de Stogumber
Niall Buggy
Archbishop
Simon Holland Roberts
La Tremouille/Page/Gentleman
Syrus Lowe
Monsieur De Rais/Courcelles
Guy Rhys
La Hire/Executioner
Fisayo Akinade
The Dauphin
Hadley Fraser
Dunois
Arthur Hughes
Page/Ladvenu
Jo Stone-Fewings
Warwick
Elliot Levey
Cauchon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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