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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Tender review – passion and dangerous promise in surreal horror romance

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers holds a coffee cup on a dimly lit stage, with Nadi Kemp-Sayfi standing behind
Haunted presence … Nadi Kemp-Sayfi, left, and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers in Tender at Bush theatre, London. Photograph: Harry Elletson

This strange and alluring two-hander was first performed in this theatre’s smaller studio space two years ago. It is a dark romance between two women, one in a long-term relationship with a man and the other experimenting with women. Both are tormented, in different ways.

Nadi Kemp-Sayfi returns as Ivy while the abundantly talented Francesca Amewudah-Rivers takes the role of Ash. She is taut, sexy and disturbed. The play sits in and around Amewudah-Rivers, such a phenomenal presence that she eclipses everything else.

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