The stage is empty, in semidarkness. Suddenly, in a huggermugger of stumbling hurry and shouted directions, a family spills out of a stairwell, dropping luggage and household possessions all over the room, and collapsing in relief. Obviously a close thing, whatever it was. The lights come up as they freeze father, mother, daughter and Negro maidwhile into the tawdry room and out through the theater comes a dreadful ululation of voices.
This is "The Sound," from which they have fled their previous apartment downstairsan apartment where, it seems, they had more rooms and possessions. But only Daughter Zenobia (Meg Foster)...
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