La Voix Humaine

Warning: Adult language
In Dutch with English surtitles

Category: Theatre/Dance

Genre: Drama

Company:
Hong Kong Rep

Venue:
HK Rep Black Box

Date and Time:
April 15th - 17th, 8:15pm

Ticket Price:
180-360

Location:
HK Island

Nearest MTR Station:
Sheung Wan

Ticketing By: Urbtix

Age Limitation: 16

In Jean Cocteau’s play La Voix Humaine (the human voice), a lone actress talks on the phone to a lover she has just broken up with. She keeps getting interrupted by a bad connection.

For about an hour, the unnamed woman goes through a rollercoaster of emotions as she addresses the man who left her, and herself. It is uncommonly, uncomfortably voyeuristic, even for theatre. Ivo van Hove drives the point home by placing his performer, Halina Reijn, in a small boxlike room and behind a big glass window, through which the audience scrutinizes her. It feels as if she is imprisoned in her own apartment, and at times she roams her limited space like a caged animal.