Moxie’s executive artistic director, Jennifer Eve Thorn, delivers a committed performance that grows ever stronger as the two-act play evolves
Note the title of playwright Jane Anderson’s “Mother of the Maid.” The emphasis is on the right character, because this historical drama with a fair share of contemporary vernacular is centered around Isabelle Arc of France in the early 1400s. Not on her daughter, Joan, who became a soldier, a martyr and, nearly 500 years after her death, a saint.
This comes with some built-in challenges. For one, the members of the Arc peasant family in the farming town of Domremy are given to dropping their g’s and employing words like “ain’t” and “arse” to imply their lack of education. It doesn’t seem necessary and, at times, it detracts from Isabelle’s demonstrations of fortitude. What’s more, whether Thorn’s character actually believes in her daughter’s “visions” is never truly clear.
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