Saint Joan of the Anthropocene

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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 Written by Linda Marshall Griffiths Produced and Directed by Nadia Molinari Technical Production and Sound Design by Sharon Hughes Assistant Technical Producer Simon Highfield Production Co-ordinator Lorna Newman A BBC STUDIOS AUDIO PRODUCTION FOR BBC RADIO 3 Publicity photograph of Safia Oakley-Green by Harry Livingstone