Nina Raine: Tribes (NHB Modern Plays) [2010] paperback Condition:New 'I loved it- it's quiet

'I loved it- it's quiet and funny and anxious

ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins

or even mean

'Written with a wonderful clarity and insight

Nina Raine: Tribes (NHB Modern Plays) [2010] paperback Condition:New 'I loved it- it's quietNina Raine's clever and subtle new play. 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.