23 November 2024
Newsdesk
Ivy has life sorted; she’s got a flat, a boyfriend and she knows exactly where it’s all headed. Except there is this thing that she tries not to think about. The thing she left in her childhood bedroom.
Ash is having the time of her life. Fresh from leaving a bad relationship, she’s got no idea what’s next. But there's something about her new flat. The wallpaper pulses and sometimes it sounds like a heartbeat.
Two women. A chance meeting. Giddy kisses they never should have shared. Tender is the story of two people who find each other without even knowing they were looking.
The dazzling and moving new play by Eleanor Tindall (Before I Was A Bear, Soho Theatre) is directed by Emily Aboud (Pink Lemonade, Bush Theatre) and produced by Broccoli Arts and Jessie Anand Productions, the team behind the record-breaking Bush Studio hit This Might Not Be It.
Eleanor Tindall is a writer for stage & screen. She is an alumnus of Soho Theatre Writers Lab (2016-17) and has previously taken part in writing workshops run by the Almeida & HighTide. In 2019 her debut full-length play Before I Was A Bear was produced by Broccoli Arts at the Bunker Theatre to critical acclaim, gaining her a nomination for Best Writer at the Stage Debut Awards 2020. The play returned to Soho Theatre in 2022. Her new play Tender was a finalist for the Ambassador Theatre Group’s playwriting prize in association with Platform Presents.
Eleanor was recently shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award 2004.
Broccoli Arts and Jessie Anand Productions in association with Bush Theatre
Tender
Written by Eleanor Tindall
Directed by Emily Aboud
Set and Costume Design by Alys Whitehead
Lighting Design by David Doyle
Sound Design by Ellie Isherwood
Cast - Annabel Baldwin and Nadi Kemp-Sayfi
19 November - 21 December 2024
At Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 8LJ
“You could say, you might say that my life is perfect”
