Joan believes the attic of her home is the tower of a broken-down castle on the edge of a forest where she lives alone. When her parents are away at work, she believes that they work abroad. On the evening of her sixth birthday, to relieve her loneliness, she invites a group of friends her age (the audience) into her tower. This is story of a child who has been raised on fairy tales who battles her fears in the grand style of her heroine and namesake, Joan of Arc.

« JOAN : […] I love walking around in the castle at night… (She reconstructs the action. Suspenseful ambience.) I open the broom closet… I close the door behind me… Bam! Holding a lighted candle I climb the old stairway inside. It's very very dark. The old steps creak. The wind howls and whooshes, because of the holes between the old bricks in the tower wall. […] I bump into something - something ALIVE! It's a GIANT RAT! […] »

" Joan Avark, (…), is a strange, dark, slightly bewildering little tale - a sort of Pinter for pre-schoolers, if you will. "» John Coulbourn, Toronto Sun, December 15, 1996.&r « Louise Bombardier's play, all made of half-tones and double meanings, explores the somewhat blurred frontier between imagination and madness. » Sonia Sarfati, La Presse, 16 octobre 1993.&r « […] Strong script strongly weaven by Louise Bombardier, […] delightful an titillating monologue. » Gilbert David, Le Devoir, 20 octobre 1993.