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Theres nothing wrong withThe Sound Insides pedigree.
And Lord knows its dangerous to have your characters talking about technique.
Are we here to listen to the playwright give himselfcompliments?
What an odd use of time.
The characters and, indeed, the play itself make a fetish of books.
The play is similarly obsessed with narration.
He suddenly looks impossibly young, like an oversized 14-year-old.
But despite her gifts, this sort of story-theater method tends to sap the energy of a play.
It becomes doubly soporific in this production, which is already plunged into unrelenting, sleepy dimness.
Yet Bella is, perversely, intrigued because Christopher has said something provocative aboutCrime and Punishment.
Its lucky, then, that the production has Mary-Louise Parker.
For those of us left alienated by its self-regard, at least theres always something to read.
The Sound Insideis at the Roundabout at Studio 54 through January 12.
