The Lark

Directed by Jeremy Cleverley

To the great lords of her time, as well as the politicians of the Church, expediency was God. So the Maid had to die! To Warwick and Cauchon, her life has the somewhat artificial, and certainly impersonal, quality of a play. Short scenes from it are played out during the trial as they struggle to turn her simplicity into herecy. But it is the glory of her story rather than the tragedy that is the triumphant climax of the play. Even her arch-enemy Warwick agrees that the fitting end should not be the fire; The Lark, whose singing once inspired the French armies, should be allowed to see her greatest victory - the crowning of Charles in the cathedral of Rheims.