Roula Pateraki

Giorgos Veltsos, The voice

The Voice, a one-act play for three characters directed by Roula Pateraki, continues my obsession with the “domesticated couple”. After Camera degli Sposi, The Notice and Processions, The Voice completes a quartet of works dealing with gender relations and the interjection of a ‘third party’.
 
Inspired by Ibsen’s love triangles, I argue there can be no relationship between the two sexes, because gender is its own problem. I had something Proust said in mind when I wrote it: “Woman will have Gomorrah and man will have Sodom”. And yet they meet on stage, when the woman poses Freud’s famous question: “What does a woman want?” – Is it a voice or is it silence?

George Veltsos