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...hair. For Jeannette d'Arc of Domrémy, who had given Charles VII his throne and whipped his English enemies with astonishing consistency, there now began one of the classic heresy trials of Christian history. That trial, held in Rouen (Feb. 21-May 31, 1431) under Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, is now a familiar story. Far less familiar is a second trial that, 19 years later, resurrected the ashes of the burnt heretic and transformed her into a heroine...
Just as Joan has been put in an American context to heighten her joyful spirit, so the other characters have been adapted with varying degrees of success, however. Boris Karloff is a restrained and very effective Cauchon. While he is sympathetic, the role demands an unwavering conception of duty which permits little new interpretation. Theodore Bikel, as Robert de Beauricourt, is properly rowdy but perhaps a victim of the incongruity of French and American vulgarity. His almost Prussian manner may be an attempt to breach the gap, but it is an inadequate one. If Christopher Plummber had rendered Warwick American...
...Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, sentenced Joan of Arc, who in wartime had given her best to her nation, to be burnt as a witch; 500 years later we find a new group of witch hunters turning upon J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had given his best to his nation in wartime...
Today Pierre Cauchon is forgotten and Joan is a Saint. Who will remember AEC General Manager K. D. Nichols and his friends 500 years from...
Margaret Webster, who directed this production, made the most of the balance Shaw got into "Saint Joan." She gets the most out of the moments of heroism and beauty. In the episodes of Shavian preaching, especially the conversations between the Earl of Warwick and the Cauchon, the Bishop who tries Joan, she succeeds in keeping it from deteriorating wholly into a panel discussion...