TRIBES

We went to see the play Tribes tonight in the Village. It was a very interesting play which really made you think. This is a picture of the stage set.

It's a dysfunctional English family with a deaf son who has been forced all his life to lipread and never learn sign language. So the play is all about exclusion, but you realize that everybody in this family is quite excluded from everyone else. The son finally makes contact with the deaf community, but through a woman who is the child of deaf parents and is going deaf herself. She wants to leave the deaf community and can't deal with the fact that she's going deaf, and he has suddenly found a place where he is included and wants to be with these people all the time. The play has many layers and we don't know if it's because we're all sort of deaf that we couldn't understand a lot of the dialog, or if it's intentionally hard to understand to get you into the place where the son is. It made a good play to talk and think about.

We spent about two hours this morning with dueling cell phones as we tried to figure out what was going on with Martha's cell phone, land line, and answering machine. Nothing unusual, but it was pretty funny to see the three of us sitting around in the living room talking to each other on the cell phones. On another front, I had a good time in beadland this afternoon. Couldn't find everything I wanted, but got some good stuff I didn't know existed. I always find really cool stuff at York beads. My best find this time was some Czech glass copper lined beads.

And finally, here's a picture of the three old ladies having a gelato before the theater. I forgot to mention that the play was supposed to end at 9:30 and because of track construction the subway we wanted to take back was shutting down south of Penn Station at 10 p.m. We really had to haul ass to get to the station in time because the play ended at 9:40.