Katherine Soulis
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KATERINA SOULI-Critique of the show “TRIBES”
Author: Nina Raine
Translation: Eri Kyrgia
Director: Takis Tzamargias
Scenography: Edward Georgiou
Costumes: Edward Georgiou
Lighting: Alexandros Alexandrou
Music: Giorgos Christianakis
Music composition: Giorgos Christianakis
Performers: Vangelio Andreadaki,, Manos Karatzogiannis, Dimitris Kouroubalis, Eleni Moleski, Kalliopi Manolis Mavromatakis
Set in the living room of the house, a journey into the history of a family with three children, one of whom, Billy, is deaf.Parents, Christopher
and Beth have raised him like a normal child out of a belief that he will not get special treatment.Especially, the father considers him the smartest of his children,
which he often repeats, belittling his siblings, Danny and Ruth. They all live together because Daniel and Ruth have moved back to the paternal home, which
It makes it difficult for them to develop their personality and self-esteem.
Danny, flawlessly performed by Dimitris Kouroumbalis, reacts, mocks his father's attachment to the tongue and is consumed in writing a meaningless and boring
thesis that takes years without perspective. He is attached to Billy and does not want to see him leave the house.
Ruth, Helen Moleski is the last wheel in the family, and she knows it.
Wrong choices of mates bring her “hostage” to her parents' house with a dream of escaping and finding another race.
A family, essentially a tribe with its own codes of survival and behavior. Members of a tribe are protected from the outside world and at the same time
trapped in it and isolated.The mother, Vangelio Andreadakis, receives harsh criticism from the father for her author's poem. Despite the discouragement
and the reductive behavior that is experienced works soothingly with everyone, showing understanding and sensitivity. The father, Manolis Mavromatakis learns Chinese in the living room of his house. However, no member of the family has been involved
to learn sign. It hasn't even crossed their minds because Billy reads lips and there's not supposed to be a communication deficit.
. When Sylvia appears in Billy's life, the girl acts as a catalyst
,. She gradually becomes deaf and introduces him to another tribe, that of the deaf. There Billy learns sign language and demands from his family
try to communicate with him and stop pretending to hear. He explains to them, through Sylvia's girlfriend, who translates from sign language,
that all his life he tries to understand them by guessing and filling in the words in his mind. Excellent in his performance of the deaf man Manos Karatzogiannis,
illuminates with his interpretation a world unknown to most of us.. Basil Truffaku as Sylvia, passes us through the despair and terror she feels
for her hearing that goes out and the hum in her head that grows.” I can't let everything in my life be deaf,” she cries heartbreakingly at Billy.
before asking them to separate.
An excellent show that has a lot to give and reflects on diversity, for what we take for granted while for others it is desirable.
Aikaterini Souli
Author: Nina Raine
Translation: Eri Kyrgia
Director: Takis Tzamargias
Scenography: Edward Georgiou
Costumes: Edward Georgiou
Lighting: Alexandros Alexandrou
Music: Giorgos Christianakis
Music composition: Giorgos Christianakis
Performers: Vangelio Andreadaki,, Manos Karatzogiannis, Dimitris Kouroubalis, Eleni Moleski, Kalliopi Manolis Mavromatakis
Set in the living room of the house, a journey into the history of a family with three children, one of whom, Billy, is deaf.Parents, Christopher
and Beth have raised him like a normal child out of a belief that he will not get special treatment.Especially, the father considers him the smartest of his children,
which he often repeats, belittling his siblings, Danny and Ruth. They all live together because Daniel and Ruth have moved back to the paternal home, which
It makes it difficult for them to develop their personality and self-esteem.
Danny, flawlessly performed by Dimitris Kouroumbalis, reacts, mocks his father's attachment to the tongue and is consumed in writing a meaningless and boring
thesis that takes years without perspective. He is attached to Billy and does not want to see him leave the house.
Ruth, Helen Moleski is the last wheel in the family, and she knows it.
Wrong choices of mates bring her “hostage” to her parents' house with a dream of escaping and finding another race.
A family, essentially a tribe with its own codes of survival and behavior. Members of a tribe are protected from the outside world and at the same time
trapped in it and isolated.The mother, Vangelio Andreadakis, receives harsh criticism from the father for her author's poem. Despite the discouragement
and the reductive behavior that is experienced works soothingly with everyone, showing understanding and sensitivity. The father, Manolis Mavromatakis learns Chinese in the living room of his house. However, no member of the family has been involved
to learn sign. It hasn't even crossed their minds because Billy reads lips and there's not supposed to be a communication deficit.
. When Sylvia appears in Billy's life, the girl acts as a catalyst
,. She gradually becomes deaf and introduces him to another tribe, that of the deaf. There Billy learns sign language and demands from his family
try to communicate with him and stop pretending to hear. He explains to them, through Sylvia's girlfriend, who translates from sign language,
that all his life he tries to understand them by guessing and filling in the words in his mind. Excellent in his performance of the deaf man Manos Karatzogiannis,
illuminates with his interpretation a world unknown to most of us.. Basil Truffaku as Sylvia, passes us through the despair and terror she feels
for her hearing that goes out and the hum in her head that grows.” I can't let everything in my life be deaf,” she cries heartbreakingly at Billy.
before asking them to separate.
An excellent show that has a lot to give and reflects on diversity, for what we take for granted while for others it is desirable.
Aikaterini Souli
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Tribes (2019)
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