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Sound Inside, The

  • Adam Rapp
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573708589

"A gripping mystery. An astonishing new play."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, 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 of Christopher that neither knows if he can fulfill.

Brimming with suspense, Rapp’s riveting play explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.
REVIEWS:

"A gripping mystery. An astonishing new play."

 The New York Times

"Adam Rapp's new play is a stunning character study of someone you’d like to know."

 Variety

"A gorgeous piece of theatre."

 New York Daily News

"90 uninterrupted minutes of tension...it’s about writers: the kind of people who in weaving stories are often in danger of unraveling themselves."

 The New York Times

"An intensely quiet play of two lonely people circling one another, each as wary of the other and both seeming to reach out more as instinct than plan."

 Deadline

"A gripping stunner!"

 Chicago Tribune

Premiere Production: The Sound Inside premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2018, and opened on Broadway at Studio 54 on Oct 17, 2019, directed by David Cromer and starring Mary-Louise Parker and Will Hochman. The Broadway production ran for 100 performances, closing on January 12, 2020.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Roles for Teens, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • BELLA LEE BAIRD - middle-aged professor of Creative Writing at Yale; recently diagnosed with stage 2 cancer.
    CHRISTOPHER DUNN - a freshman at Yale; socially awkward but talented young writer.

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    When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, 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 of Christopher that neither knows if he can fulfill.

    Brimming with suspense, Rapp’s riveting play explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.

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