classysmarta's review against another edition
2.0
I couldn't take it seriously, maybe it was important for its day but really it just made me roll my eyes.
sabsey's review against another edition
5.0
"I was a heretic. A woman who hears voices is a lot more dangerous than a woman with an army."
"Every woman who's ashamed of her body is a victim of torture. Every woman who doubts her own judgement is a victim of torture. So just how many women do you know who haven't been pulled apart?"
A one-act, one-woman play, of what is essentially an extended monologue that metamorphoses the figure of Joan D’Arc into a vehicle for exposition, that circles around the historical treatment of female narrative’s, the conditions imposed on the way those narrative’s are told, and the general long and unending history of violence (physically, emotionally, and narratively) against non-conforming women, which Jean, the play argues, essentially embodies.
Even in text, the emotional impact is felt deeply. It’s confronting dialogue, as Jean holds the audience in check as her contemporaries, her historians, her perpetrators, her abusers, and her witnesses all at once. The rage from the character is externally palpable, and the ending impression is that the female trauma Jean embodies, is not only deeply contemporary, but an unending cycle of abuse across all cultures, one that women may forever be struggling to break.
"I hear a lot of talk about women forgiving men. I don't believe in it. I have experienced almost every form of cruelty men can inflict on women, and I am here to tell you that no woman can forgive it or ignore it, and furthermore, no woman should ever try. There is no such thing as forgiveness. There is only resolution. With abuse, you either resist it or you accept it, period."
"Most of us women who survive our own best efforts at self-destruction are pretty miraculous, don't you think?"
5/5 stars.
"Every woman who's ashamed of her body is a victim of torture. Every woman who doubts her own judgement is a victim of torture. So just how many women do you know who haven't been pulled apart?"
A one-act, one-woman play, of what is essentially an extended monologue that metamorphoses the figure of Joan D’Arc into a vehicle for exposition, that circles around the historical treatment of female narrative’s, the conditions imposed on the way those narrative’s are told, and the general long and unending history of violence (physically, emotionally, and narratively) against non-conforming women, which Jean, the play argues, essentially embodies.
Even in text, the emotional impact is felt deeply. It’s confronting dialogue, as Jean holds the audience in check as her contemporaries, her historians, her perpetrators, her abusers, and her witnesses all at once. The rage from the character is externally palpable, and the ending impression is that the female trauma Jean embodies, is not only deeply contemporary, but an unending cycle of abuse across all cultures, one that women may forever be struggling to break.
"I hear a lot of talk about women forgiving men. I don't believe in it. I have experienced almost every form of cruelty men can inflict on women, and I am here to tell you that no woman can forgive it or ignore it, and furthermore, no woman should ever try. There is no such thing as forgiveness. There is only resolution. With abuse, you either resist it or you accept it, period."
"Most of us women who survive our own best efforts at self-destruction are pretty miraculous, don't you think?"
5/5 stars.
heyitsana's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
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