“Joan of Arc, a village girl through the Vosges, was created about 1412-burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431-rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456-designated Venerable in 1904-declared Blessed in 1908-and finally canonized in 1920. She actually is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the center Age groups.”-George Bernard Shaw

With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated with the storyplot of Joan of Arc but unhappy with “the whitewash which disfigures her beyond identification,” he presents a realistic Joan at battle not just with English invaders but with realpolitik. That is a masterpiece of the theatre of ideas, provided in probably the most eloquent, essential, human, and moving terms. Blackstone commissioned this production in the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Hearing.