“Saint Joan”
Ernest Thesiger as The Dauphin
New Theatre, London
March 26 - October 25, 1924
244 perf
Revivals
His Majesty’s Theatre, London
April 6 - May 9, 1931
Haymarket Theatre, London
May 12- 16, 1931
48 perf
Malvern Festival
1936
1938
“...the Dauphin was beautifully played by Mr. Thesiger, who showed beneath his astonishing grotesquerie the pity and pathos of all weakness.”
“Mr. Ernest Thesiger’s Dauphin is as farcical as Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Shaw between them can make it. You don’t believe in this Dauphin, cowering before his Archbishop of Rheims and his Constable of France, but you laugh at him heartily enough.”
The Saturday Review, July 1924
Original costume designs by
Charles Ricketts
The role of the Dauphin was written by George Bernard Shaw for Ernest, who was one of Shaw’s favorite actors.
The Stage, July 31, 1924
The Times, March 27, 1924
James Agate
The Sunday Times
March 30, 1924
With Wendy Hiller, 1936.
With Elisabeth Bergner. Caricature by Stanley Parker, Theatre World, September 1938.
Revivals
