La voix humaine
La voix humaine ("The Human Voice") is a French monodrama by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)[1]
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The original text
Written in 1928, it was first staged at the Comédie-Française in 1930.
Set in Paris, it is a play about a woman who is on the phone with her lover of the last five years. He is to marry another woman the next day, which causes her to despair. The monologue triggers the woman's crippling depression.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as The Human Voice
Translated into Dutch as De Menselijke Stem (inter alia by Marcel Sijm)[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Stem van die Mens
Performance history in South Africa
1976 Ruth Oppenheim appeared in The Human Voice at the Pieter Roos Teater in Johannesburg.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Voice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20220126_93665579
https://www.alliance-francaise.nl/gfx/101/File/LaVoix_De_Tekst%20(2).pdf
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