Warm, wickedly funny, remarkably moving production by Pangdemonium...intense and explosive...will have you in laughter and tears....Pangdemonium spares no effort in making the production accessible to audiences both hearing and non hearing...the ensemble is a taut string carefully unwound...stunning professional debut of Thomas Pang, a revelation...

Director Tracie Pang has orchestrated an intimate family drama of incredible proportions, choreographing this dysfunctional brood into a symphony of clever counterpoint and subtext - every scene is beautifully calibrated. She plays with our expectations of what it means to hear one another out, and captures what playwright Raine made the context of the play - the textures and ruptures of language, the tribes we cling to and what it means to put yourself in another person's shoes. Book it today!

Pangdemonium's pitch-perfect comic-drama Tribes...truly provocative, heartbreaking, humane, profound and merciless all at once...Director Tracie Pang mines every word and gesture for their humour and brutality, extraordinary moments when speech, signed gestures and surtitles become a perfect storm of communication breakdown; and her casting decisions are excellent...Gavin Yap and Thomas Pang as the brothers are, in a word, electric.

Pangdemonium's pitch-perfect production...smart, moving and humorous...Tracie Pang's sensitive, meticulous and pitch perfect direction allows us to enjoy TRIBES as a family dramedy even as we willingly embrace its intellectual edge...tight, generous performances all round ensure that it is a show full of heart…Gavin Yap - heartbreaking... (in Thomas Pang) Pangdemonium has unearthed another talent to watch out for yet again...

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★★★★ Pangdemonium has been building a reputation for being a company unafraid to stage plays that deal with difficult issues. But with TRIBES, they take things up a notch and achieve something truly hard-hitting, comical, and tender at the same time...Thanks to Tracie Pang’s expert direction, watching this group of actors is, indeed, like catching a glimpse of a tribe...The cast shines.

Thomas Pang deserves special mention, (with) his nuanced portrayal of the sweet yet isolated Billy. Ethel Yap is another outstanding actor...It’s evident the production achieves what it set out to do: give a voice and soul to a community that is largely ignored by the public. There are a lot of words that get tossed around here – either hilarious or hurtful – but by the time the curtain falls, we find that even when speech is taken away, so much can still be said.

Easily one of the most enjoyable and well-executed Pangdemonium plays...Pacy and funny...it is in the performances that TRIBES truly sets itself apart...Thomas Pang, in what might be one of the most amazing professional debuts...Ethel Yap shines…Gavin Yap - brilliant!

Read my lips – TRIBES is a play you don’t want to miss.

When it comes to theatre company Pangdemonium, our expectations are always high. TRIBES is not to be missed...The balance of comedy and drama makes it a winner...TRIBES tells us a lot of things: about the isolation one can feel within their family, the struggles of being deaf, and how every oddball is searching for their place to be heard - we heard it all, unspoken or not, and it has changed us for the better.

With this excellent production of Tribes, Pangdemonium have returned to the zenith of fine theatre making in Singapore...Tracie Pang's taut direction drives the play and each scene is handled with her characteristic sensitivity and attention to detail...delightful and thoroughly affecting piece of theatre.

The cast, a superb ensemble of six, turn in compelling performances and are thoroughly engaging: Adrian Pang and Sue Tordoff convey the undercurrents of marriage with riotous honesty; Gavin Yap and Frances Lee - delightful; Thomas Pang in his stunning professional stage debut as Billy, joins the ranks of actors who have been nurtured by Pangdemonium and have emerged as fantastic young actors in the entertainment scene today...Ethel Yap likewise makes a very strong impression.

With Tribes, Pangdemonium reminds us that when learning to understand one another, actions speak so much louder than words.