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One call can change a life; one call can change your life. Set in contemporary Belfast, The Human Voice is a bold reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s seminal play, bringing its emotional intensity into a world that never stops ringing. As professional responsibility collides with personal heartbreak, she is pushed to her limits, forced to keep listening, keep responding, keep going. In this world, heartache isn’t indulgent or poetic; it’s something you keep in your back pocket as you get on with the job of helping others survive. A raw, intimate portrait of resilience, connection, and the quiet bravery of showing up when everything inside you is falling apart. This edition was published to coincide with the production at Lyric Theatre Belfast in February 2026.

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Dar­ren Mur­phy is a Dublin-based play­wright, essay­ist, and aca­d­e­mic, orig­i­nally from Aldershot. He has been pro­duced in the West End, Off-Broadway, Dublin, Derry, and Edinburgh. Plays include: X’ntigone for Prime Cut at the MAC, Belfast; Bunny’s Vendetta (com­mis­sioned for the inau­gural UK City of Cul­ture, Derry, 2013); Irish Blood, Eng­lish Heart, for Trafal­gar Stu­dios, West End; and Tabloid Caligula, at the Arcola in Lon­don and as part of the Off-Broadway Fes­ti­val at E59E, New York. He was an asso­ciate play­wright at the Abbey The­atre in 2018 and is cur­rently under com­mis­sion to the Lime Tree in Limerick. His essay, The Play­wright & the Pugilist, was pub­lished in The Tan­ger­ine, and his recent arti­cle about authen­tic­ity and the London-Irish play was pub­lished in the Irish Times. He com­pleted a cre­ative prac­tice PhD at Queen’s Uni­ver­sity, Belfast in 2021, where he was appointed a Cia­ran Car­son Writ­ing in the City Fel­low 2022 – 23, for the Sea­mus Heaney Centre. He has taught play­writ­ing at Queen’s Uni­ver­sity, for the Irish Writ­ers Cen­tre, the Abbey The­atre, the Grif­fith Col­lege for CAPA – the Global Edu­ca­tion Net­work, and is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor in Cre­ative Writ­ing at DCU.

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