The Deaf Community In Nina Raine's Tribes

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Nina Raine’s Tribes tells the story of a deaf man named Billy who has returned home from college and is living with his hearing family. Tribes shows us how this modern London family grapples with miscommunication and the neediness of each character. Billy struggles to be a part of his hearing family and finds himself watching them interact from the sidelines, never involved in what they’re talking about. Billy meets Sylvia and is introduced to the vast world that is the Deaf community for the first time. Tribes follows Billy’s attempt to find his place between the two worlds in the Deaf community and with his family. Tribes is set up with a clear balance of forces also known as the stasis. Billy doesn’t know sign language and neither

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