This is a tragic/comic inspection of viciousness, the process of writing and the getting of inspiration, all set in the somehow twin worlds of a totalitarian dictatorship and of fairytales.
Although sometimes plays with fractured or otherwise de-emphasised plotting can be thoroughly entertaining, I found the narrative here to be highly unengaging.
Michael Craig, ably assisted, as it were, by a charming performance from Catherine McGraffin, goes out with a bang in this deservedly lauded American play
Tender is an emotional revelation, wherein the narrative is, ultimately, incidental to its thorough and gentle expositions of the nature, and character, of love, loss, grief, memory, resilience & relationships
