Jean Cocteau's short one act character study The Human Voice has been done
numerous times in many different languages since it premiered in Paris in 1928.
A crackerjack versionmwas done in 1966 with Ingrid Bergman as the woman on
the telephone with her lover for the last time maybe.
They;'re both theatrical people and she was a Trilby like protege to his Svengali. Now he's found a new Trilby and the old one is getting the heave ho.
Ingrid does a great job running a whole gamut of emotions from hysteria to a forced resignation to her fate. It's anyone's guess what her eventual fate will be, whether she will summon up the strength of character to carry on.
I'm thinking this is a most autobiographical work, Cocteau was gay and had any number if relationships before and after this play made its debut.
In any event this was one good outing for Ingrid Bergman.
They;'re both theatrical people and she was a Trilby like protege to his Svengali. Now he's found a new Trilby and the old one is getting the heave ho.
Ingrid does a great job running a whole gamut of emotions from hysteria to a forced resignation to her fate. It's anyone's guess what her eventual fate will be, whether she will summon up the strength of character to carry on.
I'm thinking this is a most autobiographical work, Cocteau was gay and had any number if relationships before and after this play made its debut.
In any event this was one good outing for Ingrid Bergman.