Monday, May 12

Date and time
Monday, May 12 · 7 – 9pm EDT
Unique Script-In-Hand Performances!
Followed by a scintillating Post Show Discussion!

NEW LOCATION FOR THIS MONTH!!!
MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN (MAD)
2 COLUMBUS CIRCLE SOUTH

DIRECTED BY LILY KANTER RIOPELLE

OUR BRILLIANT CAST!
Joan. … MADELINE SEIDMAN
Robert … BEN DAVIS
Poulengey / Ladvenu …TY JONES
Archbishop/Inquisitor … PATRICK PAGE
Dunois … PACO TOLSON
Warwick … ROB MCCLURE
Charles … PJ ADZIMA
Chaplain … MARK SHANAHAN
Cauchon … JOHN-ANDREW MORRISON
La Hire … d’Estivet … SEAN MCINTYRE
Steward, Edward The Page, The Page … ROBERT ELIJAH KOLLMAN
La Tremouille … R.J. FOSTER
Bluebeard / English Soldier … CHRISTOPHER INNVAR

READ SAINT JOAN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALL GENERAL SEATING!

For reserved VIP seating please phone the Gingold office: 212.355.7823

ALL OF PROJECT SHAW EVENTS ARE UNIQUE SCRIPT-IN-HAND PERFORMANCES!

NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.

SAINT JOAN by Bernard Shaw 1923.
With this play (Shaw’s 39th of 65 plays!), he was finally lauded as a playwright of importance after years of being dismissed. By this time, he had already become well-known during his brief career as a politician, as a socio-political activist, and as a literature, music and theatre critic. He kept trying to encourage playwrights to become the new modern English version of Chekhov and Ibsen, and finally took up the mantel, himself. Though now universally regarded as ‘a second Shakespeare’ who had revolutionized the British theatre, Shaw had to fight hard for respect. It was this play that inspired the Nobel committee to award him the prize for literature. He has the most comedic fun with the patriarchal characters in the play (much like last year’s film, Conclave), illustrating the absurd political maneuverings of the British Empire. With Joan, Shaw writes her as a passionate and very real human being; not as a heroine or martyr but as a determined, fierce young woman, unshakable in her beliefs, refusing to be limited to the standards set by the men in her world. Both the French and the British needed a scapegoat during a particularly difficult moment in their political maneuverings and she simply fit the bill. After 500 years of denial, the Church finally admitted in 1920 that they may have made a mistake by burning Joan, and agreed to declare her as a saint. Shaw found this to be ironic in the extreme, and this play is the result. The play was first presented right here in New York City by the Theatre Guild, followed by a solid run in London, and was immediately lauded as one of the greatest plays written in our language. Shaw’s wife, Charlotte, also proudly claimed credit as having encouraged Shaw to tackle this epic story. As among of our most requested Shaw plays, we’re eager to share it with you! – David Staller