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The Cube

By: Adam Rapp
Narrated by: Carla Gugino, Juliana Canfield
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Publisher's summary

An invitation to a mysterious theatrical performance changes the lives of two women in Adam Rapp’s riveting new audio play The Cube. Magda, an upper-class White woman, is shocked to the core by what she sees—and questions her complicity. Ruth, a Black woman who played a role in the show, is thrilled to be part of it—until she discovers her performance is all too convincing. Directed by Whitney White, a visceral and truly immersive audio experience that tackles issues of race, privilege, and cultural blindness.

©2021 Adam Rapp (P)2021 AO Media LLC

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About the Creator

Adam Rapp is the author of numerous plays, which include The Sound Inside (Broadway, WTF), Nocturne (ART, New York Theatre Workshop), Finer Noble Gases (Rattlestick, Edinburgh Fringe, Fringe First Award), Kindness (Playwrights Horizons), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick), Blackbird (The Bush, Edge Theatre), Stone Cold Dead Serious (A.R.T., Edge Theatre), and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf, Barrow Street Theatre), for which he won Chicago’s Jeff Award, an OBIE, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. His playwriting honors include The Helen Merrill Prize, The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award.

About the Director

Whitney White is an Obie and Lily award winning director, writer and musician based in New York. Recent directing: On Sugarland (Lucile Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Direction), What To Send Up When it Goes Down (The Public, Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Woolly Mammoth, America Repertory Theatre), The Amen Corner (Shakespeare DC), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage/WP Theater), For All The Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Soho Rep).
Original works include: Semblance (NYTW), Definition (Bushwick Starr), and Macbeth in Stride for which she won an Eliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance (American Repertory Theatre, Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theatre).
Fellowships include: Sundance Theatre Lab, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, Drama League Next Wave, Jerome Fellowship, Colt Coeur, Roundabout Directing Fellowship. Whitney is a Rolex Arts Initiative Protegee, an Associate Artist at the Roundabout, and an Associate Director at Shakespeare DC. She is also a writer on Boots Riley's upcoming show I'm a Virgo (Amazon, Media Res). MFA Brown Trinity Rep, BA Northwestern.

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Wonderful!!!

Some stories need a definite ending to be complete and/or satisfying. This does not. Both Acts are deliberate and delicious and captivating. Maybe you have to be a person on a journey to understand it’s meaning but I don’t think so. I think you just have to be a person who loves how art makes you feel.

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Strange and intriguing

Confusing, mesmerizing, poignant.
Somewhat hard to follow, but intriguing nonetheless, twisty and beautifully narrated

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Grammar snobs, read my review.

I only listened to a few minutes and had to stop. I’ll admit to being a grammar snob. First she said “haphazardly” as “halfhazardly”. I thought to myself that it was one word, and soldiered on. Then (about 2 sentences later) she pronounced “mumu” as “mew mew”. I’m finished.

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Enjoyed the story

The transitioning music is jarring if you are listening with headphones. But it was ok.

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Deep

So, I have to admit that I almost stopped listening. Act 1 - weird, but I listened. Act 2 - the beginning left me confused, but at then end it comes together and really makes you think. It reminds me a bit of twilight zone or black mirror. Very good and not too long. Perfect length.

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Loved it.

Fresh and imagonatove. Held my interest all the way through. twists and and turns wete easy to follow, yet surprising.

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Not at all what I expected... but completely blown away. excellent performance, great story, loved everything about this.

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started off strong but then went flat

I thought this was going to be a thought provoking story with secrets and excitement but it went totally flat with tellings of mundane events not even worthy of story telling so disappointing that I waisted my time listening to the end waiting for the punch line and there was none.

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Takes you places just like the characters

Have over 1000 titles. My first review. 2 acts in book. Act one sets up act two.

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Sound design is terrible.

The narrators are great, story is good, but the music suddenly blasting during transition paragraphs is just distracting and ruins the whole mood. If that were changed, it would be worthy of 4 stars.

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