Adam Rapp is a polarizing playwright. After bursting onto the scene in 2001 with Nocturne " a long, moving monologue by a man who accidentally kills his sister and then reinvents himself as a writer " he went on to write a number of other plays that mixed self-consciously poetic language with stockpiled shock effects […] The full version of the article New Rapp: "The Sound Inside" is available on The Theatre Times.