TenderWRITE Shorts & Big Plays

To be TENDER, to show care. WRITE, to mark, on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil or similar implement.  

 This series of readings shine a light on fresh stories from exciting new playwrights, all aged 16-24. Come experience life through the eyes of our youngest artists. There is love and desire, anxiety and fear, and a great ability to laugh despite the fact that the world is heating up to a point of explosion.  

The three shorts are:   

Feel Shit by David Rawle 
Scat by Aidan Kelly 
Fear Food by Blaithín Seville 

TenderWRITE is a young artist development programme in The Civic Theatre, Tallaght.  Two new works in the 2025 Dublin Fringe Festival Programme have associations with TenderWRITE, AMSTERDAM by David Rawle (pg. 79) was developed as part of TenderWRITE and Sophie O’Toole of D’Girlos Theatre, That’s Sooo Povo co-written with Trudy Nolan (pg. 20), is a TenderWRITE playwright.   

 For young adult audiences, 13+. Also suitable for adult audiences.