The Reviews Are In For The Sound Inside
Abigail, October 18th, 2019Now playing at Studio 54
Mary Louise Parker stars in Adam Rapp's The Sound Inside at Studio 54. Premiering at the Williamstown Theatre Festival last year, let's see what the critics thought of this hotly anticipated Broadway transfer!
The Wrap was full of praise for the production saying, "The Sound Inside is absolutely riveting theater". They continued with praise for Parker, as Bellas, saying, "Parker exudes heartbreaking fragility on stage...Bella is frail, but Parker makes sure that the character never comes off as weak."
The Observer said that The Sound Inside is a "brutally beautiful fable about how writers live to write - and then forget to live. "
The Hollywood Reporter continued the praise with "Directed with exquisite feeling and precision by David Cromer, this intimate drama manages to be both literary and rivetingly theatrical." They continued with "Parker commands the stage with such calm assurance that it's hard to imagine anyone not being transfixed by Bella's story and the unpredictable paths it takes."
What is The Sound Inside about?
Parker's Bella Baird is a 53-year old academic and fiction writer, as well as the play's central narrator. She's spent much of her life dedicated to pursuits other than love, marriage and motherhood, has a burgeoning book collection filled with first editions, doesn't smoke and even cycles to work. When she receives a grim cancer diagnosis, she begins to write about the experience, telling the audience her tale as she documents it. One of her students, Christopher Dunn, also has a way with words, and the pair form an unlikely friendship in which fascination, admiration and ultimately sorrow collide.
The Sound Inside is now playing at Studio 54 until January 12, 2020.
