Show Plot Lark

Authors: Play by Jean Anouilh, adapted to English by Christopher Fry and Lillian Hellman

Time Period: The 15th century (specifically the 1420s–1431, during the later phase of the Hundred Years' War)

Setting: 15th century France—primarily framed around a permanent courtroom/trial stage in Rouen, utilizing fluid flashbacks to scenes in Domrémy, the court of the Dauphin at Chinon, and various battlefields

Summary: The Lark (L'Alouette) is a play structured dynamically as a courtroom trial where Joan of Arc is already captured and put on trial for heresy by the church and her English captors.