Saint Joan Of The Anthropocene [Drama On 3]

In Saint Joan of the Anthropocene, Linda Marshall Griffiths reimagines Bernard Shaw's classic play Saint Joan - setting the narrative in a contemporary context where Saint Joan is a young British climate activist. The drama is inspired by Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future; a youth-led global climate strike movement.

One of the biggest questions for a young activist is: how far should I go? If nothing changes, even as politicians promise change will come, then what do I do?

A genius may appear only once in a generation, but perhaps all those young people who understand what the world could look like, can become a new kind of genius that makes Joan's vision real.

SAINT JOAN - Safia Oakley-Green

ROBERT - Cel Spellman

SENATOR WARWICK - Toby Jones

AIDE/ MUM/ COUNSEL - Jenny Platt

DAD/ JUDGE/ UK SECRETARY OF STATE.....Rupert Hill

KIT/ SEAN - Tachia Newall

HANNAH/ EMERGENCY OPERATOR - Kiara Kiandra

PROSECUTOR/ FIREMAN/ M15 AGENT - Esh Alladi

ENSEMBLE - Louis Brown, Ethan Cale, Katie Fletcher, Leah Gwendolyn,

Naomi Riccia, Una Togher, Elsa Tuxworth, Samuel Tweats

Directed by Nadia Molinari

Technical Production and Sound Design by Sharon Hughes

Production Co-ordinator Lorna Newman

A BBC STUDIOS AUDIO PRODUCTION FOR BBC RADIO 3

Publicity photograph of Safia Oakley-Green by Harry Livingstone

Linda Marshall Griffiths' contemporary re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.

A contemporary set re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw's drama Saint Joan, written by Linda Marshall Griffiths and inspired by Greta Thunberg.

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