Project Shaw's SAINT JOAN Featuring Groff, Kudisch, Seldes, Slezak & Wyman Plays 12/22

Produced and directed by David Staller, Project Shaw's latest offering - Saint Joan, written by George Bernard Shaw performs on December 22 at 7pm.

Written in 1924, just four years after Joan was finally canonized, this is the play that won Shaw the Pulitzer Prize. The play employs Shaw's more witty uses of irony in his story-telling.

He takes us on a breathtaking ride from Joan's first battle to rid France of the English, to her infamous trial. In Shaw's hands, Joan becomes a fully human young woman determined to live life battling not only the English, but also the constraints men have placed upon women in society.

Narrator - Ms. Marian Seldes
Captain Robert de Baudricourt - Mr. Nick Wyman
Steward - Mr. Daniel Truman
Bertrand de Poulengey - Mr. Simon Kendall
Joan - Ms. Madeleine Martin
The Archbishop of Rheims - Mr. Tim Jerome
Lord Chamberlain, Tremouille - Mr. John Bolton
Gilles de Rais, Bluebeard - Mr. James Ludwig
Captain La Hire - Mr. Jack Koenig
The Dauphin, Charles - Mr. Jonathan Groff
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans - Mr. Marc Kudisch
Page (Dunois', Court's, Warwick's) - Mr. Daniel Marconi
Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick - Mr. Jack Gilpin
Chaplain de Stogumber - Mr. Victor Slezak
Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais - Mr. Alvin Epstein
The Inquisitor, John Lemaritre - Mr. Larry Keith
D'Estivet, Canon of Bayeux - Mr. Teddy Eck
De Courcelles, Canon of Paris - Mr. Stephen Mo Hanan
Brother Martin Ladvenu - Mr. Adam Feldman
The Executioner - Mr. Jon Levenson

George Bernard Shaw's first success was as a music and literary critic, but he was drawn to drama. He decided to write plays. He was fiercely proud of being a free-thinking humanist, dedicated to presenting the cause of human rights for all. He and Al Gore are the only people to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar: (Nobel in 1925 for his contribution to literature, an Oscar in 1938 for his PYGMALION screenplay). His dedication to the battle for Human Rights and to encouraging all people to forge an individual path in life while taking responsibility for these life choices has been our inspiration. Now in its third of four years, Project Shaw is dedicated to presenting every play ever written by Shaw.

Project Shaw performs at New York's most legendary private club, The Players. Located at 16 Gramercy Park South, (which is the equivilent of 20th Street east of Park Avenue). In 1888, Edwin Booth, America's pre-eminent Shakespearean actor, and 15 other incorporators, including Mark Twain and General William Tecumseh Sherman, founded The Players. Modeled after London's famed theatrical club, The Garrick, The Players was the first American "gentleman's club" of its kind. To become a member or for more information about the club click on the link below, or phone 212-475-6116. (Please do not phone The Players for tickets.)

For more information, visit http://www.projectshaw.com or call 212-352-3101

Photo: Marian Seldes by Walter McBride