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PRODUCTION: St. Joan (Historical Drama)
PRODUCTION DATE: April 1977
DIRECTED BY: John Poulson
STAGED: Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill
SYNOPSIS: Saint Joan is a play by G. Bernard Shaw that he wrote shortly after the Roman Catholic Church canonized Joan of Arc. It is a dramatization based on the records of her trial that was first produced in 1923.
It begins with her first approaching a lowly soldier about the voices she hears. She then visits to the Dauphin to persuade him that she will help him become a true king by rallying the troops to drive out the English occupiers and restore France. Joan succeeds in all this through her excellent powers of negotiation. After she does this, she is betrayed and captured at the siege of Compiègne. After her trial the play draws to a close with a dream sequence in which Joan visits the king along with other characters from the play and a man from the future who tells of Joan's canonization.
PLAYWRIGHT: G. Bernard Shaw (he apparently hated the "George" and never used it, either personally or professionally) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
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| Anthony White
| Robert de Baudricourt / Gentleman
| Margaret Coveney
| Stage Manager
| Gary Smith
| Steward / De Courcelles
| Anthony White
| Set Designer
| Elizabeth Batten
| Joan
| Geoff Twyman
| Set Construction
| Jim Wilson
| Bertrand de Poulengey / Executioner
| Elizabeth Batten &
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| Michael Woolard
| Archbishop of Rheims
| Pamela Jefferies
| Team
| Yeshi Lewandowski
| La Tremouille, Constable of France
| Pauline Rhead
| Properties
| Graham Somerville
| Court Page
| Nancy Forsdike
| Make-Up
| Kevin Gray
| Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard)
| Jan Case
| Prompt
| Leon Figg
| Captain La Hire / The Inquisitor
| Jane Towell
| Box Office
| Charles Lewis
| The Dauphin (later Charles VII)
| Terry Adams
| Front of House
| Sheila Wells
| Duchesse de la Tremouille
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| Anthony Hole
| Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
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| David Beasley
| Dunois' Page
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| Peter Martin
| Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
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| Keith Jefferies
| Chaplain de Stogumber
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| Jim Towell
| Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais
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| Ken Brown
| Warwick's Page
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| Christopher Coveney
| D'Estivet
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| Bryan Pyner
| Brother Martin Ladvenu
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| Ron Forsdike
| English Soldier
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Ladies & Gentlemen of the Court, Asessors and Scribes: Ann Fairall, Brenda Keyes, Tania Muir, Norma Somerville, Sue Wilson & Peter Palmer.
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