Joan Must Die* (I Never Like Her Anyway)

• by Daniel Evans
  Directed by Leah Mercer

A West Australian premiere of a brand-new Australian play, JOAN MUST DIE* (*I Never Liked Her Anyway) is a blistering, funny and moving mashup of the story of Joan of Arc in a world where reality TV makes authenticity hard to find. A coming of (r)age story of a girl done wrong, JOAN MUST DIE* is an urgent reimagining of an historical biography told with a contemporary pop culture sensibility. In a world where the “truth” depends on who gets to tell it JOAN MUST DIE* asks how much we have changed. Highly theatrical, with most actors playing multiple characters, JOAN MUST DIE* moves seamlessly between gritty realism, camp hijinks, sword play, a couple of dance numbers and across time and space.