JOAN’S LAUGHTER

WORLD PREMIERE!
At Chicago’s side project theatre, directed by Cecilie Keenan
Tickets here!

Previews: May 14 and 15 @ 7:30pm
Opening: May 16 @ 7:30pm
Running: May 18 – June 17, Fridays @ 9pm, Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 2pm

Copies of the script will be available for Kindle on Jacob’s Amazon page starting May 16!

Based on a recently discovered 1431 document written by Church authorities that claims Joan of Arc repented and returned to the Church in her final moments, Joan’s Laughter tells the unknown story of Joan of Arc’s last ninety minutes. The historical document reveals the possibility of a young woman very different from what Shaw or Schiller knew when they wrote their accounts of Joan’s life. In Joan’s Laughter, her trial is over; her fate is sealed. Joan of Arc will be burned as a relapsed heretic at dawn. But should she listen to the priest who says she can save her soul by repudiating her Voices? To the nun who wants her to accept her fate as a final trial from God? To the guards who blame her for their suffering on the battlefield? Or should she continue to assert her Voices were from God despite their silence? From its historical inspiration, Joan’s Laughter explores the abandonment we all feel in our darkest moments.