The Human Voice A Story for Our Times

The Human Voice is a contemporary adaptation of the 1928 stage play by Jean Cocteau and La Voix Humaine the 1958 chamber opera by Francis Poulenc In a radically new production The Human Voice presents a flip of gender and a metaphor of global pandemic Now in English Isaiah Bell sings to his male lover and into the abyss of COVID In a Zoom call impaired by lag and freeze and dropped signals technology is once again enemy to intimacy The agony of failed love is heightened by the necessity of distance by the anaesthetic of the machine