Jeanmarie Simpson Playwright · Actor · Director Licensing

6 performers · Approximately 65 minutes

Even Unto Death

After Joan of Arc

Even Unto Death
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Synopsis

In the aftermath of Joan of Arc’s execution, her family and the women around them live with what the public legend leaves out: grief, rage, faith, shame, silence, and the terrible work of remembering. Years later, Joan’s mother Isabelle carries that private loss into a public fight to clear her daughter’s name.

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Even Unto Death

At a glance

What a producer needs first

Cast

6 performers

Running time

Approximately 65 minutes

Genre

Historical ensemble

Technical demand

Low to moderate

Availability

In the collectionLicensed through Upstage Left Press

Characters

6 performers to cast
Agnes Village woman, storyteller, herbess, gossip, friend, and devout witness.
Isabelle Romée Joan’s mother. A humble housewife who becomes a grieving public witness.
Margot Young servant and survivor who finds her voice and becomes a keeper of memory.
Jacques d’Arc Joan’s father.
Pierre d’Arc Joan’s older brother, a firebrand carrying rage and guilt.
Jean d’Arc Joan’s eldest brother, quieter and haunted.
Staging and technical requirementsLow to moderate

Sparse or ritualistic settings using tables, benches, cloth, water, bread, firelight, prayer objects, and household tools. Music, chant, bells, silence, and prayer shape the transitions and the atmosphere.

What you will need
  • A company of 6 performers
  • A slot of Approximately 65 minutes
  • Technical capacity described as low to moderate
  • A performance licence, granted separately from the script

Themes

What it is really about
Grief Faith Motherhood Public memory Survival
I write plays to entertain in the truest sense of the word: to give serious attention to people, questions, and histories that are too often pushed aside. Jeanmarie Simpson, artist statement
In the classroom

Six roles, five of them substantial, and a subject most students already half know. Strong for devised and physical work, and for discussion of how public legend is built over private loss.

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