The Sound Inside
8 Aug 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
The Sound Inside
Paperback
£10.99£8.79
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
From Sun 28 Jul 2024 to Sun 25 Aug 2024
When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant, rebellious freshman student, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, Bella makes a surprising request…
Filled with tension and brimming with suspense, The Sound Inside explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.
Commissioned by Lincoln Center, Adam Rapp's play was first performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, later transferred to Broadway at Studio 54, and was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best New Play. It received its UK premiere at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
'The closest thing that the American theater currently has to a David Foster Wallace, Rapp can give you the head rush of sophisticated literary allusion and unreliable narrative trickery à la Dostoevsky, and yet talk of Plano, Illinois, and let you know that he knows exactly how it feels… a gripping stunner of a play'
Chicago Tribune'Subliminal, sublime'
New York Times'Stunning... hypnotic'
Variety'A brutally beautiful fable about how writers live to write—and then forget to live'
Observer'Both literary and rivetingly theatrical'
Hollywood Reporter'A remarkable psychological mystery… exquisite tenderness'
Deadline'Real sensitivity and rapt intensity'
New York Theatre Guide8 Aug 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
