Tribes
by Nina Raine

Tribes Book Cover
Tribes Cover

Synopsis

A penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication.

Winner of Best New Play, at the Off-West End Theatre Awards.

Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules.

You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like.

Arguments are an expression of love, and after all, you love each other more than anyone in the world.

Don't you?

But Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens.

When he meets Sylvia, he decides he finally wants to be heard.

'At once funny and piercingly painful...

Raine writes with a marvellous mixture of wit and empathy... as moving as anything I have seen in the theatre this year' Telegraph

'fiercely intelligent, caustically funny and emotionally wrenching' Independent

'razor-sharp as well as utterly credible' Evening Standard

Themes

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 6 total roles, 3 female and 3 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
2010
ISBN 10
1848421214
ISBN 13
9781848421219
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
96 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCCN
2010467682
LCC
PR6118.A346 T75 2010
DCC
822.92
eISBN 13
9781780011509
Print
Tribes is a British play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in London, 2010. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781848421219 and an ISBN-10 of 1848421214.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books with an ISBN-13 of 9781780011509.

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