saint somebody

A new collaborative theatre piece about Joan of Arc and misrecording history, about mythic figures and teenage girls.

This documentation is from a WIP performance in 2019 & the show is currently in development with maker Clara Potter Sweet (Emergency Chorus).

A voice reads out a testimony. A girl dances through time.

Part-seance, part-trial, part-ritual, it’s time for us to write a little history of our own.

In a room of funhouse mirrors, watched by her reflections, Joan of Arc dies over and over again - in a fire, in history books, in categorisation.

Sit with us. Be patient. We’ll exhume the myths and dig up the stories to find what’s underneath. Joan is a maid, a teenager, a warrior, a martyr. Now, she’s a celebrity, a ghost. Stay with us. We’ll unearth the only written record of her words; now with many voices, Joan speaks.