Saint Joan at Shaw Festival

Name: Saint Joan at Shaw Festival
Start: 2017-05-24T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Shaw Festival Theatre

Wednesday May 24th, 2017 → Sunday Oct 15th, 2017

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Shaw Festival Theatre

10 Queen’s Parade
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0

Time Evening and Matinee Performances

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Who was Joan of Arc? The saviour of France … or a deluded country girl? Bernard Shaw’s greatest play about the most remarkable teenage girl in history.

Saint Joan is Bernard Shaw’s greatest play. At its centre is the most remarkable teenage girl in history. But who is she? The divinely-inspired saviour of France? A dangerously clever charlatan? Or a pathetically deluded country girl? It all depends on your point of view. Whatever she is, eventually Joan is bound to become an embarrassment to the male-dominated world she has turned upside-down. And then what?