“TRIBES is a play about the cacophony in an argumentative family, about the emotional signals we pick up on or choose to ignore, about the myriad ways we convey and withhold our feelings and the allowances we make, or fail to, for the people we hold dear...Studio’s artistic leader, David Muse, is equipped with the intelligence and finesse for this directorial assignment, and the cast he’s assembled is acutely well-suited, from Joe Caverly’s deeply felt Billy to Cespedes’s warmly self-possessed Sylvia...Billy uses his voice until, through Sylvia, he finds a new sense of autonomy and identity in learning to sign. It is one of the many ironies of TRIBES, however, that as he discovers a vital new facet of himself in the deaf community, Sylvia begins to mourn the loss of her hearing, and, in a sense, a part of herself. Where Billy is finding definition, Sylvia is encountering a blur. The play provides a compelling argument for the creation of landscapes on which both of the tribes can merge.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:03:23 +0000
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