What people are saying about “I, Joan”

  • ★★★★★ ‘As an uprising unfolds onstage, so too does it incite a rebellion in its attendees, igniting the kind of passion theatre-makers surely dream of. How long has it been since we have witnessed a piece of theatre that could be described as genuinely revolutionary? Perhaps this Joan is a hero we too have been waiting for’

    — WHAT’S ON STAGE

  • ★★★★★ ‘key to the play's success is director Ilinca Radulian who has staged it with both tremendous style and exuberant, individualistic flair’

    — WHAT’S ON STAGE

  • ★★★★ ‘Ilinca Radulian’s production deftly fuses text, music, movement and design, and exploits the unique dynamic at the Globe between actor and audience. Overall, it feels like a bit of a game-changer’

    — EVENING STANDARD

  • ★★★★★ ‘[Joan is] a gender-fluid revolutionary for our times... intelligently epic… also terrific fun’

    — THE TIMES

  • ★★★★★ ‘Charlie Josephine’s stirring, questioning and incendiary work… Ilinca Radulian’s superbly engaging production’

    — THE TIMES

  • ★★★★★ ‘Isobel Thom provides a blazing figure who burns with joy, with anger and with a true sense of feminism that is not afraid to destroy those who would wish to gate-keep the movement’

    — THE REVIEWS HUB

  • ★★★★★ ‘Blazing with queer joy… We need more Joans in this world. And we need “I, Joan“

    — THE REVIEWS HUB

  • ★★★★ “Non-binary finery”: I would count it worth going for that phrase alone. To see and hear it translated into movement, shape, colour, sound and gesture is to be part of a remaking of the stage, an explosion of new life’

    — THE OBSERVER

  • ★★★★ ‘All elements are vibrantly rethought in Ilinca Radulian’s production… Dance sweeps the stage as Joan develops a new vocabulary of spiky, pulsing gesture and movement to galvanise an army’

    — THE OBSERVER

  • ★★★★ ‘It is a joyous few hours directed by Ilinca Radulian. On Naomi Kuyck-Cohen’s stretched-out wooden ramp set, actors slide and climb as if they were in a playground… An onstage band makes each scene feel like we’re preparing for revolution. Together, this company is one of jubilant power’

    — THE GUARDIAN

  • ★★★★ ‘With the risk of wind, rain and loudly passing aeroplanes at the Globe, “I, Joan“ is performed with kinetic vigour… this politically charged sensation is a much-needed whirl’

    — THE GUARDIAN

  • ★★★★★ ‘Non-binary Joan of Arc epic is a revelatory rebellion… there's no denying the breadth of director Ilinca Radulian's creative vision’

    — LIAM O’DELL

  • ★★★★★ “I, Joan“ is excitingly expansive and ethereal. Its argument about the confines of small words for big ideas like life and love can very much extend to this review. To condense such a phenomenal production into just a couple of hundred words would be a disservice’

    — LIAM O’DELL

  • ★★★★★ ‘An utter smash-hit drawing upon a key historical figure to make a new compelling, fiery case about gender for a modern audience. “I, Joan“ ignites a movement, and you'll want to be a part of it as it marches valiantly – onwards!’

    — LIAM O’DELL