Without freedom? Musicologist Keith Clifton says: Certainly Cocteau was aware that such a work would present tremendous challenges for the performer, and so he employed another mute character, the telephone itself. The crickets, the invisible toad who claims that change is possible, And all the other life too small to name. Hers is the only voice heard throughout the play, and only silence accompanies the lines supposedly spokcn by the man on the phone. Tu ne me vois pas achetant un revolver] This minor point in the play becomes the vehicle ror the film's denouement and for Pepa' s final break with lvtln.
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