It's Still Her Voice
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| Venue | East Sydney Community and Arts Centre (ESCAC), Darlinghurst, NSW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Date | 4 March 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Date | 5 March 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | It's Still Her Voice collides both Francis Poulenc’s 1958 operatic adaptation of Jean Cocteau's 1928 one-act play of La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) and the play itself. Opera and drama. A singer. An actor. A piano. The telephone. It’s Still Her Voice takes these works to identify how our lives are mediated; from emotions in need of an audience to the role of technology in intimate relationships. This is immersive theatre. A masterclass in human despair. A portrait of loneliness and, indeed, madness and melancholy. The edgy atmosphere takes on a frisson of horror when a woman’s lover rings to tell her of their marriage next day. We are helpless against the rising force of her emotions, and ultimately complicit in her disintegration. She checks her mobile for updates and texts. Her response to the chiming noises when she gets a call is Pavlovian in its desperation. We see her deleting old photos and checking her Instagram feed. And the telephone isn’t her only addiction.
When our relationships are as much enabled as they are limited by technology, breaking up is hard to do. |
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| Description Source | Website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Drama
Immersive |
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Emotions
Relationships Technology |
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| Text Nationality | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Production Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Data Set | AusStage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 162730 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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