Review: Deafness brings family interaction into focus
Otago Daily Times
By Barbara Frame Mon, 17 Jun 2013
Discussions of deafness often focus on two almost mutually exclusive ''worlds'' - the hearing world, and the deaf world.
Tribes
Fortune Theatre Studio
Saturday, June 15
Billy's parents, not wanting him to be defined as ''handicapped,'' have brought him up to lip-read and be part of the hearing world.
Now an adult, he's the quiet one in a household where there is always blaring, crashing or shouting going on.
Tribes, by Nina Raine, is about many things: families and the delicate, mysterious, invisible mechanisms that make them tick; the tremendously complicated ways in which human beings understand, misunderstand and identify with one another; and the mistakes made by people with the best of intentions. Read more...
