Tribes

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The challenges of communication come through loud and clear in British dramatist Nina Raine's affecting if slghtly overstuffed play Tribes, now receieving a beautifully acted production under the sure-handed direction of David Cromer at the Barrow Street Theatre.

As the play begins -- staged in the round amidst Scott Pask's gorgeously detailed living room set -- a seemingly typical family evening is in progress, full of shouting, quasi-intellectual arguments, and dramatic outbursts by parents Christopher (Jeff Perry) and Beth (Mare Winningham), both writers, and their three adult chldren, now all living at home: graduate student Daniel (Will Brill), aspiring opera singer Ruth (Gayle Rankin)[...]