Tribes

PUBLISHED April 21st, 2015 07:58 am | UPDATED June 9th, 2020 08:27 pm

Sweet, silent Billy (Thomas Pang) feels like an outsider in his own family. Billy, you see, happens to be deaf. Dad (Adrian Pang): first class academic, world class ass; Mum (Sue Tordoff): mystery novelist, clueless about the mystery of her own family; Sis (Frances Lee): up-and-coming opera singer in a downtown pub; and Big Brother (Gavin Yap): speech expert, hears voices in his head…your typical dysfunctional, eccentric tribe of bohemian weirdos.

When Billy falls in love with a real “outsider”, Sylvia (Ethel Yap), his world is turned inside out, and he finally wants to be heard. And what he has to say will ear-shatteringly and heart-breakingly prove that actions really do speak louder than words.

A uniquely humorous and profoundly moving look at the complexities of communicating with the ones you love, Tribes won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.

There will be special performances incorporating Singaporean Sign Language interpreters on stage.

Tribes will run from 22 May 2015 to 7 June 2015 at the Drama Centre Theatre.

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