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Tribes (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Nina Raine

 
9781848421219: Tribes (NHB Modern Plays)

Synopsis

The London and New York smash-hit drama.

Nina Raine's subtle and clever new play.

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

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.

Nina Raine's play Tribes was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2010. It won Best New Play at the Off-West End Theatre Awards.

Tribes had its US premiere at the Barrow Street Theatre, Off-Broadway, in 2012, winning the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.

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About the Author

Nina Raine graduated from Christ Church Oxford with a double First in English Literature. In 2000 she won the Channel Four/Jerwood Spaces Young Regional Theatre Director bursary and joined the Royal Court as a Trainee Director, while also writing plays. Her first play Rabbit premiered in London in 2006 and won her the Evening Standard Award for Most promising Playwright. She is the daughter of poet, Craig Raine, and lives in London.

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