Delicate, provocative and bursting with wit, THE SOUND INSIDE unravels the story of two outsiders on the threshold of breaking an indelible taboo. Nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Play, this UK Premiere sees an entanglement of relationships ensue when a solitary Ivy League creative writing professor becomes captivated by a brilliant, rebellious freshman student. Leading to the darkest of favours, THE SOUND INSIDE drives inexorably towards a climax filled with beauty, mystery, and the ultimate declaration of love.
Written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp, and performed by Merchant Ivory Productions star Madeleine Potter and The Kite Runner’s Eric Sirakian, THE SOUND INSIDE is a mesmerizingly intimate fable about the intersection between art and the most private corners of the human heart. Directed by Matt Wilkinson (Psychodrama; My Eyes Went Dark) with soundscape from the multi award-winning Gareth Fry (The Encounter; Harry Potter and The Cursed Child), this intense but moving play will leave audiences feeling haunted and spellbound.
Director Matt Wilkinson comments, The themes of isolation, loss and grief in Adam’s writing speak so powerfully to me. Then there’s the mystery, the thriller element. You hope for things to turn out ok. You don’t know if they will. Adam’s work is never didactic. THE SOUND INSIDE is funny as hell, very delicate, always surprising, but fundamentally I think it’s a love story of two people, damaged in their own ways, who reach out to one other, across space, without ever speaking of it.
Previous praise for THE SOUND INSIDE:
A gripping small-scale mystery… subliminal, sublime – The New York Times
Exquisitely written…Rapp’s eloquent language is sometimes meta-theatrical, often poetic, sometimes professorial, pragmatic, intellectual, or wry, and always riveting – DC Metro Arts
