Tender

Synopsis

In a city full of fast talk, hard sell and chance encounters, how much faith can we put in other people? Al loves Hen, but now there's a baby on the way everything looks different. Gloria, she loved Marvin, but one day he just walked out and disappeared. And Hen's mate, Tash just loves a laugh and a drink - particularly a drink.

Our Review:

12 September 2001

Abi Morgan is fast establishing a reputation as one of Britain's best young playwrights - and deservedly so. Morgan has an ability to get to the heart of the personal problems of today's younger generation. With both Tiny Dynamite, which recently premiered in Edinburgh and Tender, she digs beneath the surface of people badly hurt in relationships.

In Tender, Morgan's characters are incapacitated specifically by loss and loneliness in its different guises. Perhaps the most striking is the loquacious, neurotic Tash (played achingly and convincingly by Kate Fleetwood). A 30-year-old woman who changes jobs and men like clothes, Tash constantly wounds herself emotionally but tries to put a brave face on her unsuccessful search for even a two-night stand.

Her friend and confidant is the pregnant Hen (Caroline Faber). These two are opposite poles. Hen is a thinker while Tash does her best to avoid thought and substitute action. ...

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