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Mike Sperber: Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam’s Park
January 16, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
“Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam’s Park” is a one-act play with four scenes. It explores how a teenage, illiterate, cross-dressing, peasant girl, who did not know how to ride a horse, became commander-in-chief of the French army and turned the tide on the Hundred Years’ War, the most brutal, barbaric and bloody war in history.
It asks the question–was Joan, who had command auditory hallucinations and what appeared to be delusions of grandeur, psychotic?
Mike who trained in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is Medical Director of Comprehensive Health Services. His previous plays are “Emily Dickinson’s Bees.Butterflies, Breeze and Blindness.” and “Buddha and Hamlet in Bedlam.”