People's thoughts on Tribes

I was just wondering what people thought about Tribes? I have read the summary, seems interesting and it is on TDF. But, prior to buying a ticket I wanted to see what people thought about it.

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Have there been any cast changes, that you know of?

It's a great show, one of the best of the season. I wrote a review of it here: http://scribicide.com/2012/03/30/tribes-quite-personal-and-quite-loud/

I hope they have another interpreted performance, soon. A lot of my deaf friends missed it the first time and really want to see it!

I checked the interpreting company's website and they just had two dates in May.

The BST, I mean.

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I saw it tonight. I liked it a lot. It was interesting and thought-provoking without being super obvious. I thought the themes were new and interesting. Instead of this idea of gay people being lesser human beings, we are now talking about deaf people. I thought it was an interesting take on a group of people not a lot of know about. I thought the direction was really great, and the use of the space brilliant. Top notch casting.

Oh, man, I was really hoping to catch it again with that cast.

Have their replacements been announced? I just did a quick Googling and didn't turn any info up.

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Can you be more specific?

There are times when the staging deliberately obscures conversations or pieces of conversations -- in my assumption, to give the audience the experience of the exclusion and disorientation of the main character, who is deaf.

The actor who plays the main character is also deaf -- deaf from birth, I believe -- and so his diction and pattern of speech is markedly difference from the hearing actors in the play. Admittedly, I may have missed the odd word here or there, but definitely nothing that impeded my comprehension and definitely nothing that a little bit of focus and concentration couldn't fix.

However, I'd also suggest that if either of these things are enough to make you hesitant to see this play, then perhaps this play is not for you.

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Hmm... that's very surprising. I obviously can't speak to other people's experiences. Maybe some are having trouble with the accents. They're not heavy or dialect-y -- to my memory, pretty straightforward upper-middle-class London across the board, like a lot of run-of-the-mill English characters we see on American TV and in American movies. It took me longer to acclimate to the accents in JERUSALEM and ONCE than TRIBES.

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I highly recommend it. It was probably the best new play of the last season, and it's a very provocative, thoughtful, and daring piece.

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I think some of the dialogue is missed primarily because the family is always arguing so there's a lot of overlap. But it's not the kind of play where you need to hear every word to piece things together. You'll hear all the important things. And there are subtitles for most of the "deaf" stuff. It's great. If you're scared about it, go see it.

This is all way too positive.

Can we get some After Eight in this thread pointing out that the unlikable characters are unlikable?

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