Complex sentence: Joan of Lorraine is a 1946 play-within-a-play by Maxwell Anderson about an acting company who stages a dramatization of the story of Joan of Arc, and about the effect that the story has on them.
Split into simpler sentences: Joan of Lorraine is a 1946 play-within-a-play by Maxwell Anderson. The play is about an acting company who stages a dramatization of the story of Joan of Arc, and about the effect that the story has on them.