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Calls for Pope Benedict's sainthood make canonizing popes seem like the norm – but it's a long and politically fraught process

Like many others around the world, I watched the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI live on the internet. Before the service began, an unexpected announcement came over the loudspeakers requesting that members of the assembled crowd refrain from raising any banners or flags. Nevertheless, toward the end of the…

The Conversation

Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

The Independent UK

A non-binary Joan of Arc? Great. Now theatre should take the next step

Letter: Louise Branch calls for playwrights to portray male historical figures such as Henry V as non-binary or trans

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Charlie Josephine: why making Joan of Arc non-binary in a new Shakespeare’s Globe play is a joyful act

I, Joan has become the year’s most controversial play before it has even opened. There’s no need for alarm, says its writer

Evening Standard

‘I forgot I was blaspheming a saint!’ – Charlie Josephine on writing a non-binary Joan of Arc

The Globe theatre sparked outrage when it announced its plans to stage a non-binary Joan of Arc. The play’s writer explains why the French warrior would have approved

The Guardian - UK

This is real reason Joan of Arc they/them play has anti-trans lobby in a froth

ONE of the strangest things I experienced while on furlough during the pandemic was the odd way that time moved. Lockdown was such a black hole of…

The National (Scotland)

Joan of Arc to be made non-binary in new Globe production

The historical figure is known for leading the French in battles against English soldiers in the Hundred Years War

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Joan of Arc to be made a non-binary character in new Globe production

Theatre bosses say the play, I, Joan, will ‘offer the possibility of another point of view’ when it arrives later this month.

The Independent UK

French riverboat tour was worth the pandemic wait

“We’ve been waiting for you” was the common theme among our cabin crew, bartenders, waiters, tour guides and the Tapestry II River Boat captain. It had been two years of waiting for the riverboats to take to the water since the boats were shut down for the pandemic.

Pioneer Press

Hell Hath No Fury review – cleverly choreographed violence in a search for Nazi loot

Danish actor Nina Bergman is the commanding, shaven-headed hero of a bleak, subversive parable on the lethal power of greed

The Guardian - UK

‘I most admire Joan of Arc’: Catherine Renshaw, ALP candidate for North Sydney

In Crikey’s Elect Me! series, we ask candidates across the breadth of the political spectrum for their answers to the same key questions.

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