Six women in goth Renaissance-like soldiers' garb are onstage. Four of them are in a cluster in the center, holding wooden daggers with red streamers suggesting blood flowing out of them. Two other women are standing on either side of the battling group, looking on with their hands outstretched, as if cheering or yelling suggestions.

Joan of Arc: history or apocrypha, saint or schizophrenic, myth or martyr? We’re all mad here, suggests Trap Door Theatre’s vivacious U.S. premiere production of Matei Vişniec’s Joan and the Fire (2007), translated by Jeremy Lawrence and directed by Nicole Wiesner. Down a narrow alleyway, through a restaurant, beyond an unimposing doorway, lies a world […]

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