By deploying both the powerful story of the original Joan of Arc and a new original variant brought by Joan again in which she tells of her rescue from the flames by St Michael, Gilchrist explores the ways in which “story” conceals rather than reveals, manipulates rather than clarifies, fosters ignorance rather than illuminates, panders to self-image rather than tests credibility. His often hilarious, shrewdly observant and cleverly interwoven analyses of the various ways stories obstruct insight of self, others and society is brought to vigorous life by a committed cast, in particular, a provokingly impudent but luminous Joan (Sylvia Keays).
