TenderWRITE Shorts & Big Plays
8 September

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.
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No Esc
by Cal Ó Muirí
Smock Alley Theatre – 1662
16 Sept, 12:00, Free but ticketed
Duration: 90 mins
TenderWRITE Big Plays:
Forbidden Fruit
by Susannah Al Fraihat
Smock Alley Theatre – 1662
16 Sept, 16:30, Free but ticketed
Duration: 100 mins
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Free but ticketed
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