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Jean Cocteau

The Human Voice

An intimate play of goodbye

Jean Cocteau

The Human Voice

La Voix humaine, 1930

PREMIERE

10. oktober 2018
SNG Nova Gorica, Small Stage

11. oktober 2018
SNG Nova Gorica, Small Stage

Jean Cocteau’s 1930 monodrama The Human Voice focuses on an abandoned woman who sits by the phone, waiting the final call from her former lover so that they can sort out the last details of their life together and say goodbye forever. An emotionally-charged telephone conversation, which the lovers cannot conduct uninterrupted, because the connection is so bad, is the basis for a turbulent and multi-layered story, which along with the history of their relationship also discloses moral and ethical questions of the value of love and the traps of the telephone call as a means of communication. The woman, who had been expecting the end of the union, is strongly split between the rational awareness about the course of their relationship and her emotional side, which cannot accept it. How to go on, what now, was the entire relationship merely an illusion? In the intimate drama of a strong, modern and independent woman, we witness a key moment of her life, in which she shines in front of us in a mixture of determination, vulnerability, power and fragility through the universal human theme of abandonment.

The performance was directed by Ajda Valcl, who has thus far directed the surrealistic comedy After Magritte and two performances for children, Breakfast and Animal News at the SNG Nova Gorica.

 

With the amiable consent of  Mr. Hugues CHARBONNEAU, President of the Jean Cocteau Commitee

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Awards

  • Helena Peršuh - tantadruj za največji igralski dosežek 2018/19 za igro v monodrami Človeški glas

Festivals and performances abroad

J-O-Ś Trinationales Theaterfestival D – PL – CZ, Gerhart Hauptmann Theater Zittau, Nemčija, 2019

10. 10. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

11. 10. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

12. 10. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

19. 10. 2018, 20.00. Gledališče Glej Ljubljana.

20. 10. 2018, 20.00. Gledališče Glej Ljubljana. - CANCELLED

21. 10. 2018, 20.00. Gledališče Glej Ljubljana. - CANCELLED

24. 10. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

25. 10. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

26. 10. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

27. 10. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

7. 11. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

8. 11. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

17. 11. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

12. 12. 2018, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

17. 12. 2018, 20.00. Gledališče Glej Ljubljana.

18. 12. 2018, 20.00. Gledališče Glej Ljubljana.

5. 2. 2019, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

8. 3. 2019, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica. - CANCELLED

29. 3. 2019, 19.30. Mestno gledališče Ptuj.

24. 5. 2019, 20.00. J-O-Ś Trinationales Theaterfestival D – PL – CZ, Gerhart Hauptmann Theater Zittau, Germany.

18. 10. 2019, 19.30. Mestno gledališče Ptuj. - CANCELLED

21. 11. 2019, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

2. 12. 2019, 20.00. Glej Ljubljana.

3. 12. 2019, 20.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

23. 1. 2020, 19.00. Kulturni center Ravne na Koroškem.

8. 2. 2020, 18.00. SNG Nova Gorica. - CANCELLED

 

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