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The Sound Inside

By: Adam Rapp
Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker, Will Hochman
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Tony®, Golden Globe, and Emmy® Award winner Mary-Louise Parker stars in what ​The New York Times​ calls “a gripping mystery” about Bella Baird, a​ ​novelist and Ivy League English professor who prizes her solitude. When faced with a challenge she cannot tackle alone,​ Bella must ally herself with a brilliant but mysterious student (William Hochman) and confront the question of what one person can truly do for another. Intensely intimate and deeply moving, Adam Rapp’s haunting play received resounding acclaim during its Broadway run at ​Studio​ 54 and was nominated for six Tony Awards​. ​Now available only on Au​dible, The Sound Inside is a “vital, compassionate and rivetingly theatrical drama about tragedy and redemption, sacrifice and loss, the bright blaze of artistic creation and the sadness of an unknowable stranger” (​The Hollywood Reporter)​.

Directed by David Cromer.
Music by Daniel Kluger by arrangement with peermusic

Portions of this audiobook contain mature language and themes. Listener discretion is advised.

©2019 Adam Rapp (P)2021 AO Media LLC Drama & Plays United States World Literature Heartfelt Student

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Interview: Mary-Louise Parker Reprises One of Her Most Challenging Roles in 'The Sound Inside'

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'I'm going to get into the cage with the lion again every night.'
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Adam Rapp
David Cromer

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

David Cromer is director and actor originally from Chicago, currently based in New York. As a director, his New York credits include The Sound Inside (Broadway); The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company, Broadway & National Tour); the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and The House of Blue Leaves; The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theatre); The Effect, Orson’s Shadow, and Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company); Really Really (MCC Theater); When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater); and Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre). Other directing credits include BUG (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) Next to Normal (Writers Theatre); Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company); The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Our Town in London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Kansas City. As an actor, he recently appeared on Broadway as Howard Fine in the 2018 production of The Waverly Gallery. Prior to that, he appeared on Broadway as Karl Lindner in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and Off-Broadway as the Stage Manager in Our Town, which he also directed, at the Barrow Street Theatre. He appeared in the HBO series The Newsroom, the Showtime series Billions, and in the motion picture The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). Cromer has received a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Mary-Louise Parker
Will Hochman

About the Performers

Mary-Louise Parker was last seen in Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside on Broadway (which she originally appeared in at the Williamstown Theater Festival), for which she is nominated for a Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Play. She will next be seen on stage in Spring of 2022 in the Broadway Revival of How I Learned to Drive, in the role which she originated off-Broadway (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award and an Outer Critics Circle nomination).
She also originated roles in the first productions of Proof (Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, Obie, and New York Magazine Awards, T. Schreiber Award), Prelude to a Kiss (Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award, The Clarence Derwent Award, Drama Desk nomination), Heisenberg, The Snow Geese, Four Dogs and a Bone, and Babylon Gardens, and in the American premieres of The Art of Success and Communicating Doors. Her other theater credits include Reckless (where she earned her third Tony Award nomination), Hedda Gabler, Bus Stop, The Importance of Being Earnest, Up in Saratoga, Hay Fever, and others. She was a member of Circle Rep Theater Company and a founding member of the Edge Theater.
Television: Weeds (Golden Globe award, four additional nominations, three Emmy nominations, six SAG nominations), Angels in America (Emmy Award, Golden Globe, Satellite Award), The West Wing (Emmy nomination), The Robber Bride (Emmy nomination), Mr. Mercedes, When We Rise, Billions, Sugar Time, Saint Maybe, A Place for Annie, and others.
Film: Red Sparrow, Golden Exits, R.I.P.D, Red and Red 2, Behaving Badly, Pipe Dream, Chronically Metropolitan, Longtime Companion, Grand Canyon, Fried Green Tomatoes, Naked in New York, The Client, Bullets Over Broadway, Boys on the Side, Reckless, The Five Senses, Saved!, Romance & Cigarettes, Red Dragon, Solitary Man, Howl, and others.
Also a writer, Parker was an on-staff contributor at Esquire magazine for over a decade, and has written for The New York Times, O Magazine, Bullet, Bust, Hemispheres, The Riveter, In Style, and others. Her first book, Dear Mr. You, was translated into multiple languages and included on the San Francisco Chronicle’s list of best books of the year. The audiobook was nominated for best narration by the Audio Publishers Association.
Photo Credit: Jason Bell

About the Performers

Will Hochman made his Broadway debut in Adam Rapp's The Sound Inside, a critically acclaimed two-person drama opposite Mary-Louise Parker, directed by David Cromer. Other theatre includes Sweat at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, The Sound Inside at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (original cast), and Dead Poets Society at the Classic Stage Company (original cast). Film and television credits include Let Him Go for Focus Features, Critical Thinking, directed by John Leguizamo, the independent film Master, HBO's Paterno, and a recurring role as Detective Joe Hill on the CBS drama Blue Bloods.
Photo Credit: Sham Hinchey

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Sick & Sickeningly good. You'll never see the end coming. A writers' kind of story; rich & weird, ingenious & thorough. Leaves nothing more to be desired, yet plenty more to be imagined. Brilliant!

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I started out not enjoying the book; however since it was a short story of less than 2 hours I decided to keep going. I had a hard time getting into it but after half or 3/4 of the way through there was enough to keep my interest to read it until the end. But at the end I guess I was disappointed in the ending. all things said, it was just kind of a very strange and odd story that was nothing special

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My mind hurts after listening to this twice. In a word, it’s pure art. If you aren’t into poetic, ironic, mind-blowing, make you question and feel everything writing, this may not be for you. The characters are so deep in such a short work.

My question now is... what amazing parents produced this writer and his brother Anthony as well? Amazing ones, no doubt!

Beyond Amazing!

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The performances were great. The man’s voice was a little hard to hear, otherwise straight 5’s on everything. Wonderful. Unexpected.

Beautiful - Unusual

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Riveting. Sharp. Haunting. What makes people tick? No answer. Some really wonderful prose, read by a literate talent.

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At first I didn’t think I would get into the female story. I was drawn in quickly and enjoyed the story

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I can imagine that a reading of this book by a lesser actress might render it less interesting.

Riveting

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The most well-written book I've read in a long time. Quality literature. I truly enjoyed it!

Brilliant

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Lots of talk of suicide so don’t read it if you are triggered by that.

Really enjoyed this, lots of layers, lots to think about!

Trigger warning- but beautifully written

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Amazing story; didn't ever see where this was going but wanted to be there every step of the way! very moving and thought provoking.

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