2026

Authors Note:

“The scene, minimal, shows the corner of a woman ’ s bedroom; dark room, blue tones, with, on the left, an unmade bed, and, on the right, a door slightly open on a very harshly lit white bathroom. In front of the prompter ’ s box, a low chair and a coffee table: telephone, lamp with a cruel light. The curtain reveals a murder room. In front of the bed on the floor, a woman in a long gown lies, as if murdered. Silence. The woman sits up, changes position and again stays immobile. Finally, she makes up her mind, stands up, grabs a coat from the bed, heads for the door after stopping briefly in front of the telephone. The moment she touches the door, the phone rings. She lunges. The coat gets in her way and she kicks it out of the way with her foot. She picks up the phone. From now on, she will talk standing, sitting, back to the audience, facing the audience, sideways, kneeling behind the low chair, only her head showing, leaning against the back of the low chair, pacing the room dragging the cable of the phone behind her, until the end where she falls forward on the bed. Her head will dangle off the edge of the bed and she will drop the telephone like a stone.”


- Jean Cocteau From the Académie Française.

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