The young deaf man at the center of the Nina Raine play, set to open at the Mark Taper, confronts his rowdy family and exposes a larger inability to communicate.In the play "Tribes," a young deaf man with a boisterous, hearing family learns something from a new girlfriend that his parents and siblings never bothered to teach him: how to sign. He had always been expected to keep up with them by reading lips.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:58PM on March 7, 2013