LA VOIX HUMAINE, a one-act, one-woman show by Francis Poulenc, is a searing glimpse into the life of a woman and her last phone call with her lover of five years. Based on the semi-autobiographical play by Jean Cocteau, the hour-long production will play out in real time in a Soho loft.

Presaging the era of the text break-up, and digitally mediated relationships, Cocteau and Poulenc have conjured into carnal, lucid focus the tremendous power over our humanity of the voice on the other end of the line. The telephone is the inescapable vehicle through which Elle fervidly spins precious last moments of connection with all that remains–the voice.

CREDITS

Jacquelyn Stucker as Elle

Matthew Odell as the pianist

Scenic Design by Rachel Libeskind

Directed by James Danner

Assistant Directed by Déa Julien.

Following the success of the production in May 2014 in New York, AMANDA + JAMES was awarded a grant by the Knight Foundation to bring a reconceptualized production of Poulenc’s opera to Miami.

A site-specific installation designed by Rachel Libeskind featured as the setting in the Bas Fisher Invitational gallery, a reconverted warehouse on N. 11th St, just south of Miami’s Wynwood Design District.