One of Holland's most innovative theatre companies returns to the Grec with a sparse, intimate production in which the spectator becomes voyeur, listening in to the heartbreaking end of a love affair narrated in one last phone call.
Barcelona audiences discovered Ivo van Hove and his theatre company thanks to the spectacular Tragèdies Romanes (“Roman Tragedies”, Grec 2013) and, later, The Fountainhead (Grec 2014). This year, however, we gain a glimpse of the more intimate side to this director’s work in his staging of a classic twentieth-century play by Jean Cocteau. In “The Human Voice”, Halina Reijn gives a solo performance as a woman talking to her former lover by phone, desperately pleading with him. In Van Hove’s minimalist production, the well-known theatre, film and television actress appears behind a window, inviting the audience to spy on her grief at the loss of her lover as communication breaks down and telephone dialogue becomes devastating monologue. This production, seen for the first time in Barcelona, reveals a new facet in the work of this Belgian director as he eschews the spectacular grandeur of earlier works to present a raw, sparse yet utterly engaging tour-de-force.
Autoria: Jean Cocteau; Traducció: Peter van Kraaij, Halina Reijn; Direcció: Ivo van Hove; Dramatúrgia: Peter van Kraaij; Intèrpret: Halina Reijn; Disseny d'il·luminació i escenografia: Jan Versweyveld; Traducció dels sobretítols: Aura Garí López; Fotografia: Jan Versweyveld;
