Unlike most D&T review subjects, Mother of the Maid is not a particularly new play. It was developed and first performed in Massachusetts in 2015. I encountered it, however, while browsing plays about historical women: a theme we have touched on several times in recent features, and appropriate at the time of International Women's Day.
The play has an interesting focus in that while it is broadly about Joan of Arc, it explores her story from the perspective of her mother – ‘a sensible, hard-working, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd and extraordinary daughter.’ It has a cast of 10, but can be played by 7 actors with some doubling.
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