Ivo van Hove & Toneelgroep Amsterdam
De Andere Stem van Ramsey Nasr
Jean Cocteau wrote ‘La Voix Humaine’ from the perspective of the woman. We do not know what the man on the other end of the line says or thinks. In ‘The Other Voice’, Ramsey Nasr allows us to hear the ex-lover, and so the two plays are in dialogue with each other.
A man in a barely furnished apartment with unpacked boxes telephones his ex. It appears the break was radical and abrupt. Gradually it becomes clear that the lovers had often wanted to end their relationship, but failed to do so. And neither of them emerges from the relationship unscathed. ‘Love is a sick thing,’ says Ramsey Nasr. Ivo van Hove coaches him in a refined manner in his intimate rendition of a man torn between sincere concern and the realisation that the break is inevitable.
A man in a barely furnished apartment with unpacked boxes telephones his ex. It appears the break was radical and abrupt. Gradually it becomes clear that the lovers had often wanted to end their relationship, but failed to do so. And neither of them emerges from the relationship unscathed. ‘Love is a sick thing,’ says Ramsey Nasr. Ivo van Hove coaches him in a refined manner in his intimate rendition of a man torn between sincere concern and the realisation that the break is inevitable.
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