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"Fifteen years ago I killed my sister."
So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart.
With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores the aftershock of this unimaginable event. The father is so incapable of forgiveness he puts a gun in his son's mouth; the mother so shattered, she deserts the family and eventually takes leave of her sanity altogether; the son—only 17 years old at the time—sets out for New York City. There, he seeks an uneasy refuge in books and reinvents himself as a writer. Across the decade and a half that follows he tries to cope with the ramifications of his own anguish and estrangement while making a desperate search for redemption.
A devastating, elegant, and gripping dissection of the American dream, Nocturne signals a brave new voice in American theater.
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Berry Curry
reviewed Nocturne on June 14, 2016 Nocturne
It's a little difficult to picture how this play would have worked on stage, as it is largely (except for some of the final act), a monologue. However, I'm not here to review a play I've never seen; this is about a book, one that stirred me and hit on several deeply emotional levels. I don't know anything about the author but I suspect that like his main character he has at some point suffered extreme and tragic loss. I also think that his familial bonds (and perhaps some lack thereof) played a profound role in his life. Otherwise I just don't understand how he could have captured and conveyed the emotional realities of these aspects of life. At once I felt the anguish of the son and my own emotions. Couldn't be better.
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