A new production at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre depicts Joan of Arc as identifying as non-binary with they/them pronouns

Joan of Arc will be portrayed as a gender-neutral character in a new play at the home of Shakespeare in London, in a radical departure from the usual depiction of the historic figure.

Audiences for "I, Joan", which will open on August 25 at the Globe and run for two months, will hear Joan use the pronouns “they” and “them”.

The play is described by the theatre as “alive, queer and full of hope”. It will chart Joan’s rise during the Hundred Years’ War between the French and English. Isobel Thom, who identifies as non-binary, will play Joan. It will be Thom’s first big theatrical role.

Michelle Terry, the Globe’s artistic director, said that it was not the first production to represent Joan of Arc.

Source: The Times