{"id":6837,"date":"2007-07-26T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T20:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:44:34","slug":"saint-joan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6837","title":{"rendered":"Saint Joan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/26\/london-theater-journal-a-woman-among-men\/\">A production (and performance) I&#8217;d love to see<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As played by Anne-Marie Duff, the latest pinup girl of cerebral London theatergoers, Joan is a raw, guileless lass, without a clue about anything the men around her are doing. That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s usually the way of Joan, of course. But the superb, and ultimately very moving, Ms. Duff doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t pull the time-honored trick of flipping the internal switch that says \u00e2\u0080\u009cradiance\u00e2\u0080\u009d and making her voice go all trembly and poetic.<\/p>\n<p>This Joan is an energetic, ordinary, irritating lass in all ways but one: her belief. We\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve had plenty of examples of late of how religious conviction can turn ordinary souls into fanatics. And history is filled with unexceptional people who were made exceptional by the fierceness of their confidence, the sense that they always knew they were doing the right thing for the right reason. Ms. Duff makes it clear just how irresistible such confidence can be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, the ol&#8217; Saint Joan &#8220;trembly and poetic&#8221; trap.  Sounds like a really interesting production &#8211; love the photos, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A production (and performance) I&#8217;d love to see. As played by Anne-Marie Duff, the latest pinup girl of cerebral London theatergoers, Joan is a raw, guileless lass, without a clue about anything the men around her are doing. That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s usually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6837\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22190,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/22190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}