A Segal Centre Production

Tribes

MONTREAL PREMIERE!

By Nina Raine
Directed by Sarna Lapine
Introducing Jack Volpe as Billy

“How can you feel a feeling unless you have the word for it?”

The only deaf member of an eccentric, intellectual family, Billy longs to be heard. When a romance with a woman who teaches him sign language opens him up to a new world of self-expression, Billy discovers that instead of trying to fit into his family’s world, he can break out and find his own. Quick-witted, funny and moving Tribes is a powerful look at language, love, and what it truly means to be understood.

“Best-written, best-plotted, deepest, most daring – and funniest – new play in recent years”
-The Wall Street Journal

“Extraordinary… scintillating”
-The New Yorker

“A smart, lively…play that asks us to hear how we hear, in silence as well as in speech.”
-NY Times.

“There’s so much going on in…TRIBES… intellect and sentiment, love and cruelty, witty zingers and biting put-downs. But in Nina Raine’s dazzling play, too much is a good thing.”
– NY Post

“TRIBES made me excited about … theatre again; I haven’t been this knocked out by a play in a long time.”
– NYTheatre.com

Presented with ASL Interpretation: November 30 at 8pm / December 7 at 7pm / December 13 at 2pm
Sunday @ The Segal Pre-Show chat:November 29 at 11am
Monday Night Talkbacks post-show conversation: December 7 & 14
Class Act Theatre Club: December 1 at 6:30pm

Segal Theatre
5170 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, H3W 1M7

For tickets and information: www.segalcentre.org  514-739-7944