Tehran – The play “The Human Voice” by Jean Cocteau is set in the Simoog Theatre in Tehran.
Araz Jahanshahi is the director of the play. Masoumeh Asgarpur is the only actor in the performance, Irna reported.
“The Human Voice” is a mono-drama first performed in Comédie-Française in 1930, written two years ago. It is set in Paris. In Paris, I still call my boyfriend for five years. He is to marry another woman the next day, which causes her to despair. Monologues cause women’s crippling depression.
Cocteau’s experiment in the human voice peaked in this play. This story involves a woman on stage talking to a woman (invisible and unheard) with her lover leaving, who is talking on the phone. The phone proved that Cocteau is the perfect prop for exploring his ideas, feelings, and “algebra” about human needs and reality in communication.
In his introduction to the script, Cocteau admitted that the play was motivated by complaints from his actress that his work was too dominant by the writer/director.
“The Human Voice” is simple at first glance. It’s almost an hour in a non-stop theatre where only women on stage talk on the phone with their departure lover.
Reviews were varied at the time, and ever since, no matter what the criticism is, the play expresses Kuto’s state of mind and feelings for his actors. Meanwhile, he was tired of their diva’s antics and ready for revenge.
It is also true that none of Cocteau’s works have influenced imitation. Francis Polanc’s opera “Lavoic Humeine,” Jean Carlo Mennotti’s opera buffer “The Telephone,” Roberto Rossellini’s film version and Anna Mageni’s “L’Amore” (1948). Pedro Almodóvar’s “Woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown” (1988) is also inspired by the play of Cocteau. He also had long interpreters such as Simone Signolet, Ingrid Bergmann, Liv Ulmann (in the film), Julia Migenes, Dennis Duval, Renata Scott, Anja Silja and Felicity Lotto (opera).
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the first avant-garde artists of the 20th century, and had a major influence on the movements of surrealism and Dadaist, among other things.
Along with other surrealists of his generation (e.g. Jean Anouilh and René Char), Cocteau worked on the old and newer “algebra” of the “algebra” of the Mise en enscène language and modernist techniques.
His work took place in the Grands Theatre, the world of the theatre on the Boulevard, and during the Parisian epoch he lived, assisting in definition and creation. His versatile and unconventional approach and enormous output have brought him international acclaim.
Proceeds from the sale of “The Human Voice” were donated to widows and unsupported women on March 8th, coinciding with International Women’s Day.
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