The Human Voice review " Leanne Best delivers a tour de force of despair
Gate theatre, LondonGuilt, anguish and female torment shape a spectacular star turn in this revival of Jean Cocteau's study of a woman on the brinkJean Cocteau's 50-minute monologue of a woman's last conversation with her lover hinges on a phone call. The phone is the old-fashioned kind with a cord and dial. She waits in her Paris apartment for it to ring and then for crossed lines to be cleared before saying her tor…