THE FAREWELL
02 - 20 Oct
(Come and go as you please)
Festival Hub: Trades Hall
The Farewell is a part-opera, part-theatre art installation where one participant will witness a very public break-up.
Situated inside the bustling Fringe Hub at Trades Hall, a phone and television set rests atop a dining table. Be the first to notice the phone when it begins ringing, pick it up, and take a seat.
Elle is at the other end of the line - or rather, two Elles. On one TV channel is part of Jean Cocteau's 1930 play The Human Voice, and the other is Francis Poulenc's 1958 opera La Voix Humaine. Flick between French and English, opera and theatre, and decide how you wish to experience the most famous one-sided telephone conversation of the 20th century.
The experience will last approximately 15 minutes before the phone rings again.