Joana 2015. Batalla campal

The damsel who broke the siege of Orleans was no more than seventeen years old, so it is quite understandable that, in this stage version, the playwright and director Pablo Ley presents not so much the historic Joan of Arc, the illuminated child who had religious visions and forms part of French nationalist mythology, but an innocent creature transported into the twenty-first century. The piece is a joint effort by Pablo Ley in cooperation with composer Javier Gamazo, director Ester Villamor and leading actress Raquel Ferri. Establishing a dialogue with the music played live by Gamazo himself, Ferri mines her own biography to entwine it with that of the mythical heroine. She paints a picture of her childhood under the Valencian sun, happy days in a small village, laughing and playing. And the innocent games played by the voices that tell her to save the world and fight against the forces of evil. Because the stage language that Ferri employs is that used by children to recount their adventures as she tells, with extreme sensitivity, the story of various episodes in Joan’s life: from leaving her village to the battle, the trial, her execution and, finally, her ascent to the light.

Production: Teatre Eòlia and Projecte Galilei.

Autoria: Pablo Ley Fancelli; Composició musical: Javier Gamazo; Direcció: Ester Villamor i Pablo Ley Fancelli; Interpretació: Raquel Ferri Moscardó; Interpretació musical: Javier Gamazo; Treball corporal: Mar Medina; Disseny d'il·luminació: Ester Villamor; Disseny de vídeo: Marc Gamazo; Producció i difusió: Roi Sastre i Albert Ubach; Disseny i imatge del cartell: Ana Albalat ;