Girls' High School Play

This year's production by the Girls' High School was of the usual high standard and ably produced by Miss M. Yates.

The choice of G.B. Shaw's 'Saint Joan' was a happy one as it shows him at his best. Dealing with incidents from the life of Joan of Arc, the play opens when, as a rough country girl, she seeks an audience with Squire de Baudricourt, and continues through to her trial and death. Most of Shaw's material for the play was drawn from the evidence brought before the court set up in 1920 to consider her canonization. Owing to the limited capacity of the school stage, the producer had to omit the Epilogue. Some of the scenes from the play are shown in these pics.

The trial of Joan of Arc

The end of scene two. From left, Lynne Hardman, a soldier; Lyn Stenner, a courtier; Jean Prentice as Bluebeard; Glennis James, a courtier; Angela Holmes as La Hire; Gillian Richards as Joan; Penny Skyrme as the Archbishop of Rhelms; Giovanna Hall as the Dauphin.

Producer Miss M. Yates with Gillian Richards as Joan of Arc

Jane Dixon, as Squire de Baudricourt, gives steward Jocelyn Webster a drubbing.

Waveney Stammers as Dunois with Joan at the stained glass window.

Wendy Porter as Dunois' page with Joan and Dunois.

The Steward with Elizabeth Vaughan as a soldier, Dianna Davoren as the executioner, Dunois and page.

Jill Sweeney as the Inquisitor, Tessa Stephens as the Bishop of Beauvais, Susan Friar as the Earl of Warwick and Jill Griffiths as Chaplain de Stogumber.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 109 : July 11, 1963

Girls' High School Play