As the deaf son of hearing parents in Nina Raine's turbulent, absorbing "Tribes," James Caverly's Billy sits Sphinx-like at family meals, his placid features an invitation to conjecture. Is Billy fully aware, you're moved to wonder, of the scalding nature of the attacks his abrasively intellectual father levels at his apoplectic mother and high-strung siblings? Does he feel as keenly as they do the tension that seems…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:18PM on January 13, 2014