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Saint Joan

A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue by Bernard Shaw.

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    George Bernard (GB) Shaw 

  • Suíomh

    15th century France

  • Nótaí

    'Saint Joan' premiered in the Garrick Theatre, New York, on the 28 December 1923. The credits listed here relate to the play's London premiere.

    Widely translated across the world, the play has also been performed in a number of different Irish language versions, most famously starring the great Siobhán McKenna in the Taibhdhearc in 1950. See separate entry for details.

  • Achoimre

    A tragedy based on the life and trial of the French peasant girl Jeanne d'Arc, burned at the stake for her role in the Hundred Years' War between France and England.

    In his preface to the play, Shaw wrote that "There are no villains in the piece. Crime, like disease, is not interesting: it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all [there is] about it. It is what men do at their best, with good intentions, and what normal men and women find that they must and will do in spite of their intentions, that really concern us."

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Méid na Fóirne ( Fireann)

    22

  • Méid na Fóirne (Baineann)

    2

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    26 March 1924

  • Nótaí faoin Léiriú

    Produced by the New Theatre, London.
  • Leiriú

  • Ionad an Chéad Léirithe


  • Nótaí faoin Ionad

    Staged at the New Theatre, London.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Joan Sybil Thorndike
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans Robert Horton
Dunois' Page Jack Hawkins
Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick E. Lyall Swete
Peter Cauchon Eugene Leahy
Warwick's Page Sidney Bromley
The Inquisitor O.B. Clarence
Brother Martin Ladvenu Laurence Anderson
English Soldier Kenneth Kent
Gentleman Matthew Forsythe
Captain La Hire Raymond Massey
Duchess de la Trémouille Beatrice Smith
The Dauphin Ernest Thesiger
Chaplain de Strogumber Lewis Casson
Executioner Victor Lewisohn
Bertrand de Poulengy Victor Lewisohn
Robert de Baudricourt Shayle Gardner
Steward Francis Hope
De Courcelles Francis Hope
Archbishop of Rheims Robert Cunningham
Mgr de la Trémouille Bruce Winston
Court Page Sam Pickles
Gilles de Rais Milton Rosmer
D'Estivet Raymond Massey
Foireann Léirithe  
Dearthóir Seit Charles Ricketts
Léirithe ag Lewis Casson

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Volume 6

  • Bliain

    1973

  • Foilsithe ag

    The Bodley Head

  • Seoladh

    England

  • ISBN

    0370102258

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