From the George Bernard Shaw play adapted and directed by Firenza Guidi, this Saint Joan was first performed in New York in 1923, three years after the canonization of Joan of Arc, Shaw's play shows her as an early nationalist and the prototype of the Protestant thinker who put her conscience before the judgement of the Church. She died because her new ideas were dangerous to both the Church and feudal society. In an epilogue Joan is surprised to learn of her sainthood; when she offers to return to earth she is again rejected, the usual fate of saints and geniuses according to Shaw.

Dr. Firenza Guidi is the founder/director of the European Live Arts Network (ELAN), an experimental theatre company based in Wales dedicated to creating site-specific projects. Firenza inaugurated the first Butler International Theatre Project in May 2002, with a production of Woyzeck staged in the catacombs beneath the Indianapolis City Market. Last spring she staged Shaw's Candida at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.