The theatre production scraps what made its protagonist so inspiring in the first place: the very fact of her feminine nature—a young girl who put her virtues to work within a male-dominated field.
As we, far from Joan in both time and culture, agonize about how to love our nations in our strange new world, there is no lesson from her life more important that this: St. Joan saved France by loving something more than France.
“Children should be educated in greatness, not only in integrity. They must learn to do that which is great, and not only that which is right.” —Alexandre Dianine-Havard
Being chosen to play Joan the Maid of Orleans is not a simple matter of representation, but a real commitment. In a few days, Clotilde Forgeot d’Arc will begin a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the shepherdess of Lorraine, following the major stages of her epic journey.
