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We are looking forward to seeing you at Prytania Theatres at Canal Place next Monday for MOVIE NIGHT: "THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC" (1999) DIRECTED BY LUC BESSON!!
Tickets are available at www.eventbrite.com/e/1997048761605?aff=oddtdtcreator
NOTE: Early Bird tickets are $15 plus fees and in person tickets are $20 plus Eventbrite fees.
Stay afterwards for some fun "trivia" when we will debunk the many historical inaccuracies included in this particular Joan film!
BTW, this article does a great job covering this ever-energizing, often annoying, always engaging topic of Joan cinematic interpretations!!
girlswithguns.org/joan-of-arc-history-vs-cinema/
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Michael Livingston, PhD, FRHistS, Col (UMSC) is an award-winning historian and author, celebrated for his rigorous scholarship and captivating storytelling. He has twice won the Distinguished Book Prize from the international Society for Military History (2017, 2020), was short-listed for the Crown Awards (2024), writes best-selling fiction, frequently lectures on military history, and hosts documentaries. A former Secretary-General for the United States Commission on Military History, he co-hosts the Bow and Blade Podcast and serves as Citadel Distinguished Professor at The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Pandora Gastelum is the founder of The Mudlark Public Theatre and the New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival. She also serves as Festival Director and President of The New Orleans Giant Puppet Fest Inc. Puppeteer, playwright, designer and performer, Pandora graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a double major in Theatre and Sociology and has studied and taught puppetry and performance throughout Europe and Southeast Asia. Ms Gastelum is also the Artistic Director of her space's resident company, The Mudlark Puppeteers. As a company, the Mudlark Puppeteers specialize in puppet theatre that is innovative and unconventional, presenting original and little-told stories of heroic misfits and wayward love. The Mudlarks have a developing repertory of object-based works in a variety of scales. Mudlark work explores history and human experience through a lens of fable, waging a playful but determined battle for alternative modes of being. Mudlarks imagine hope in the form of new stories, reimagining the dispossessed as emerging heroes. The New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival invites this prospect to the world.
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