{"id":45098,"date":"2025-09-04T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/portfolio\/the-human-voice\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:10:12","slug":"the-human-voice","status":"publish","type":"cpt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/portfolio\/the-human-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">at the Mikro Horn Theater<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loukia Michalopoulou<\/strong> reunites with <strong>Nikorestis Haniotakis<\/strong> in a very special new collaboration, following the huge success of the play <strong>\u201cGida, or Who Is Sylvia?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time, the two of them bring to life<strong> Jean Cocteau<\/strong> \u2019s great monologue,<strong>\u201cThe Human Voice<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winner of the <strong>Merkouri<\/strong> Theater Award <strong>(2011)<\/strong> will take on an iconic role previously portrayed by some of the world\u2019s greatest actresses, such as <strong>Simone Signoret, Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Julia Mich\u00e9nes, Denise Divall, Renata Scotto<\/strong>, and others.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Case<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heroine of the play is a young woman talking on the phone with her lover, who is leaving her to marry someone else. Consumed by thoughts of death, she experiences the pain of love, which, though once a source of life, has turned into a devastating emotion. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>The<strong>Human Voice&#8221;<\/strong>is a one-act play written in 1928 by<strong> Jean Cocteau<\/strong> and first performed two years later at the famous <strong>Com\u00e9die-Fran\u00e7aise<\/strong> by <strong>Berthe Bovy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Greece, it was one of <strong>Elli Lambeti\u2019s greatest theatrical successes in 1978<\/strong>, along with two other one-act plays by the same author, \u201cThe <strong>Liar\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cI Lost Her,\u201d<\/strong> translated by <strong>Marios Ploritis<\/strong>, in which, as they say, the great leading lady <strong>gave the best performance of her life<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;The Human Voice&#8221;<\/strong>has inspired Francis Poulenc\u2019s opera, <strong>*La voix humaine*<\/strong> (1958), Gian Carlo Menotti\u2019s <strong>*The Telephone*<\/strong>, and Roberto Rossellini\u2019s film starring Anna Magnani,<strong> *L\u2019Amore*<\/strong> (1948). <strong>Pedro Almod\u00f3var<\/strong> \u2019s film <strong>*Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*<\/strong> is also inspired by this work. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The writer Jean Cocteau<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jean Cocteau<\/strong> was a poet, novelist, playwright, painter, and film director. <strong>Manos Hadjidakis<\/strong> described him <strong>as \u201ca diabolical acrobat of art.\u201d<\/strong> He was a larger-than-life figure\u2014a narcissist, a dandy, ambitious, solitary, and possessed of a sparkling wit. His work remains relevant today as it explores timeless existential anxieties, the fear of death, and redemption from one\u2019s passions. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>The<strong>Human Voice&#8221;<\/strong>is also a prophetic work because in it <strong>Jean Cocteau<\/strong> has managed <strong>to perfectly capture the relationship between the individual and the telephone<\/strong>, the means of communication that would define a new way of life decades later.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this iconic monologue, a woman <strong>passionately struggles for the person she loves<\/strong>; <strong>she pretends, laughs, and cries<\/strong> all at once, while being <strong>both<\/strong> <strong>timid and bold<\/strong>. The play is imbued with feelings of abandonment, betrayal, adoration, and passion, as well as rejection and the hopelessness of relationships. <strong>Timeless, unchanging emotions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at the Mikro Horn Theater Loukia Michalopoulou reunites with Nikorestis Haniotakis in a very special new collaboration, following the huge success of the play \u201cGida, or Who Is Sylvia?\u201d This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","cpt_portfolio_group":[459,461],"class_list":["post-45098","cpt_portfolio","type-cpt_portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cpt_portfolio_group-2022-2023","cpt_portfolio_group-mikro-horn-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45108,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45098\/revisions\/45108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cpt_portfolio_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio_group?post=45098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}