Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us Audiobook

Billy has been deaf since birth, but his family has never learned sign language. In fact, until he meets Sylvia, who is fluent in American Sign Language, Billy has never in his life been understood by anyone.

This critically acclaimed sensation from Nina Raine will awaken all of your senses as it boldly asks some of life’s hardest questions: what is communication and understanding, and can we truly have it—with anyone?

An LA Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring Rosalind Ayres, Barry Creyton, Thomas Dellamonica, Russell Harvard, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Susan Pourfar, and Mare Winningham.

Directed by Alexis Jacknow and recorded before a live audience by LA Theatre Works.

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“What could be more appropriate for audiobook listeners than a story focused on the ability to hear?…Narrators Russell Harvard and Susan Pourfar reprise their stage roles in Raine’s taut and often comic play. The work examines the difficult choices that the deaf must sometimes make between the world of sound and the world of silence. Harvard, who was born into a third-generation deaf family, brings poignancy, honesty, and depth to the proceedings. Fine contemporary theater.”

— AudioFile