Posts Tagged ‘Joan of Arc’

Joan of Arc to be portrayed as non-binary in new Globe Theatre production

Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Joan of Arc Globe Theatre

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is reinventing the story of St Joan of Arc in an upcoming production in which the French-Catholic heroine will be portrayed as a non-binary “queer” character. The Globe announced its decision in a tweet, “Our new play ‘I, Joan’ shows Joan as a legendary leader who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’. We are Read more

Out of the ashes: The Passion of Joan of Arc

Friday, June 3rd, 2016

Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431. She was canonized in 1920. Eight years later, and almost 600 years after her death, she was immortalized on screen in Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc. Soon after its completion, however, the original film “disappeared” on account of fire. Painstakingly, the director Read more