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Joan in the Desert
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So what do you do when a hero, a saint, or a martyr shows up? You don’t burn them at the stake anymore. But what is done to them is as cruel. In Joan in the Desert, a play by Louise Wynn, an innocent young girl is confronted, in 2024, by the mob, the medical system, and the court. She meets some people who take her as she is, others who treat her scornfully, and some true believers. As in the 1400s, she is accused of being a fraud — at best insane. The mob will love her until she declines to perform the miracles they require. The doctors, like the religious and political figures of the 1400s, see her as a threat to their power; she is for them only a specimen. The judge is helpless in the face of her conviction. What will happen to Joan?