then later on, i was given the chance to play anouilh's joan in the lark. the difference between the two plays, i think, is interesting because shaw's joan is a very sturdy, physically very strong girl. the anouilh play, she is more fragile, more vulnerable, more dreamy almost, and there is that--i think, the difference in the plays is that in the trial scene, joan recants and then immediately changes. in the anouilh play, she recants and is thrown into prison and when warwick comes to visit her, that makes her see how she denied her own faith, and she refuses to do that. anouilh chose the name the lark, which is interesting because the little european lark is not an american bird, it's very different from our lark. it's tiny and rather nondescript looking and it has a beautiful song. it starts to sing as it spirals up into the sky and goes up and up and up and up and you can hear the song and you can't see the bird anymore. well, that's how joan has been through all these centuries: she is still singing her song and people still listen to it. i know that e