Ingrid Bergman in Jean Cocteau’s one-character play, presented as the final installment of the ABC Stage 67 series.  Written in 1930 and first staged at the Comédie-Française in Paris, “The Human Voice” (“La Voix Humaine”) unfolds as an extended monologue: a one-sided telephone conversation between the unnamed woman and he soon-to-be former lover. The phone becomes her final link to the man and she employs it in a desperate attempt to hold onto him, despite a bad connection, the knowledge that he is leaving her to marry a younger woman, and her growing certainty that he is in fact, speaking to her from his fiancée’s home.

“Miss Bergman’s delicate playing was a tour de force, a brilliant portrait of the woman whose life is wrenched out of joint by the fates of the heart.” — New York Times