Saint Joan

Saint Joan
by George Bernard Shaw

Guest Director Micheline Chevrier (Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist)

March 28 to April 6, 2013 at 7:30 pm
$5 preview March 27 at 7:30 pm
Matinee April 4 at 12:30 pm
(No show March 31)

Timms Centre for the Arts (87 Avenue & 112 Street)

The play Saint Joan is based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc and fits into the 2012-13 season’s theme of ‘Power to the Theatre.’ It is a great political classic in the theatrical canon, with weight, depth and range. For the actors, it offers sophisticated, rich characters and the chance to work with formal language. It will challenge our students and our audiences in the
best way.

“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?“ George Bernard Shaw

Micheline Chevrier
For more than 30 years, Micheline Chevrier has worked across Canada as a director, artistic director and dramaturg. As a director, she has worked in a variety of professional theatres ranging from large festivals to creation-based companies, and from major regional theatres to theatre for young audiences. Her work has been seen at such theatres as the Shaw Festival, the National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, the Citadel Theatre, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Théâtre français de Toronto and Theatre New Brunswick, among others. She has also worked abroad with BeMe productions in Barcelona and Munich.

Studio Theatre welcomes Shaw Festival veteran to direct Saint Joan