Tribes
“Have you heard? Are you listening to me? What did you just say? Most of us ask variations on those questions at least a dozen times a day. But it’s unlikely that they vibrate with the resonance they acquire in Nina Raine’s Tribes, a smart, lively…new play that asks us to hear how we hear, in silence as well as in speech.”
New York Times
Billy has been deaf since birth, but his family has never learned sign language. In fact, until he meets Sylvia, who is fluent in American Sign Language, Billy has never in his life been understood by anyone.
This critically acclaimed sensation from Nina Raine will awaken all of your senses as it boldly asks some of life’s hardest questions: what is communication and understanding, and can we truly have it—with anyone?
An LA Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring Rosalind Ayres, Barry Creyton, Thomas Dellamonica, Russell Harvard, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Susan Pourfar, and Mare Winningham.
Directed by Alexis Jacknow and recorded before a live audience by LA Theatre Works.
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