Review: The Human Voice (La voix humaine)

TW: Sui­cide Jean Cocteau wrote La Voix Humaine in 1928 as a one-act play.  Fran­cis Poulenc set it to music 30 years lat­er, despite hav­ing already known Cocteau well for years, and gave the rea­son for the delay as hav­ing need­ed more life expe­ri­ence to do it jus­tice.  Dur­ing those years he strug­gled with depres­sion […]