The Gozo Creative Theatre club are presenting a one woman play entitled ‘The second coming of Joan of Arc.’

The play is by Carolyn Gage. Carolyn has been described in reviews as “a powerful writer who comprehends her character .”

The part of Joan of Arc will be performed by Margaret Cassar.

Joan of Arc led an army to victory at seventeen. At eighteen, she arranged the coronation of a king. At nineteen, she went up against the entire Catholic church . . . and lost. Her trial lasted five months, and the testimony by witnesses was carefully transcribed by notaries. Twenty years after her death, a new trial was authorized, and again detailed records were kept.

There was testimony by her childhood playmates, by her parents, by the women who slept with her, by the soldiers who served under her, by the priests who confessed her, by those who witnessed and administered her torture. She is the most thoroughly documented figure of the fifteenth century. So why do the myths about the simpleminded peasant girl, the pious virgin, still pervade the history books?

Joan was anoretic. She was a teenage runaway. She had an incestuous, alcoholic father. She slept with women. She died for her right to wear men’s clothing. She was defiant, irreverent, more clever than her judges, unrepentant, and unfailingly true to her own visions.

In The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Joan returns to share her story with contemporary women. She tells of her experiences with the highest levels of church, state, and military, and unmasks the brutal misogyny behind male institutions.

The set has been designed by Paul Austin Stellini, and the play is directed by George Mizzi.

The play will be staged at the St. John Hall, Cittadella Centre for Culture and the Arts, The Citadel, Victoria, Gozo, (Next to the Cathedral Museum).

Performances will be on Friday, the 22nd of May at 10.00pm, Saturday the 23rd of May at 6.30pm, 9.30pm and 12.00pm and Sunday the 24th of May at 1.30pm

Tickets will be available at the door at the price of € 5.00. The club advises that the play is suitable for an adult audience only.

The play will be part of Notte Gozitana – Lejlet Lapsi 2009

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