THE HUMAN VOICE by Jean Cocteau

Translated and adapted by Jeff Lewis
Starring Elliot Pritchard
Directed by Andrew Visnevski
Designed by Alexander Mcpherson
Music composed by Saro Manoukian
Produced by Natalie Richardson

Elliot Pritchard stars as The Woman in the immortal classic of love lost over the telephone.

The telephone rings. During the call The Woman gradually loses her battle to retain her lover. On one end of the phone, there is the person who cannot be false to their nature. They are being abandoned by the unseen lover on the other end of the phone who cannot face up to their nature at all.

In a new physical theatre adaptation, The Human Voice leads us down the steep descent into emotional defeat and loneliness, the destiny of many who feel outside of society, a universal feeling that we all, intermittently, share.

Featuring outstanding new theatre artist Elliot Pritchard as The Woman in his first solo show, the production by Andrew Visnevski returns this world-famous piece to the queer world which inspired it originally almost 100 years ago.
A scintillating legend of French cultural life and a personal friend of Marcel Proust, Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, Igor Stravinsky, Man Ray and Lee Miller among others, Jean Cocteau was openly self-declared homosexual and his work as revolutionary film-maker, critic, writer, highly individual illustrator and painter attested to it. Cocteau's use of metaphors, mirrors and masks expresses the covet longings and the semi-fantasy of existence when an individual is 'out-of-norm' in society.

http://thehumanvoice.co.uk/

Tuesday 24 November to Saturday 5 December 2026 
Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7.30pm 
Matinées Saturday 28 November and 5 December at 3.30pm