num_pages: 96
description: 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  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. --Chris Jones Chicago TribuneWhen Bella Baird an isolated creative writing professor at Yale begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student 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. Brimming with suspense Rapp's riveting play explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.
language: English
title: The Sound Inside
publisher: Theatre Communications Group