The Sound Inside
by Adam Rapp

Name: The Sound Inside
Brand: Adam Rapp
SKU: 9780573708589
Rating: 3.94 (4 reviews)

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Highlights

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90 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Teen(s)Interior SetContemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

Tony Award

Nominated for six 2020 Tony Awards , including Best Play 2019 New York Times Critic’s Pick Listed among “Best of the Year” in Time , Chicago Tribune , LA Times , Daily News and The Hollywood Reporter

Synopsis

The Sound Inside; A riveting play about a creative writing professor at Yale and her brilliant, rebellious student, exploring the limits of what one person can ask of another.

Press Reviews

"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

"Accessible and entertaining... On the surface, Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside seems like a straightforward two-character play that tells an ensnaring story. But the drama itself is a series of puzzle boxes. Open one and you’ll find another — each leading deeper into the mystery of art’s relationship to reality."
— Los Angeles Times

"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

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Christopher Dunn A freshman at Yale; a socially awkward but talented young writer	—	—	A freshman at Yale; a socially awkward but talented young writer
Bella Lee Baird Middle-aged professor of creative writing at Yale; recently dignosed with stage 2 cancer	—	—	Middle-aged professor of creative writing at Yale; recently dignosed with stage 2 cancer