Tender Napalm is a high-impact, high-concept two handed play which explores the landscape that is a relationship between a man and a woman.
Playwright Philip Ridley was born in the East End of London, where he still lives and works. He is a contemporary artist, poet, novelist, film-maker and one of the country's most celebrated living playwrights. Ridley has been described as 'probably a genius' (Time Out), 'a visionary' (Rolling Stone), 'the master of modern myth' (Guardian) and 'the best British playwright of the last 20 years' (Aleks Sierz, author of In-Yer-Face Theatre).
fierce, transfixing and ultimately very moving... Mr. Ridley, who
is also a filmmaker and a children's book author, is high on my
list of contemporary playwrights these days. He was always a writer
of daring and satanic imagination, with a sui generis vocabulary to
match...The exotic worlds he conjures feel deeply familiar, even to
the point of banality, which is what makes them all the scarier and
all the more revelatory.
*New York Times*
Philip Ridley's extraordinary play...brilliantly juxtaposes the
banal and the fantastical, the delicate and the brutal, the
euphoric and the agonised, as it maps out the voyage from first
attraction to consuming devotion, by way of devestating tragedy . .
. It is rich, slippery, grotesque and lovely, crammed with the
writer's distinctive bruising lyricism and uncompromising immediacy
. . . It is heady, heart-stopping stuff; wildly intoxicating.
*Sam Marlowe, The Times, 27.4.11*
In the way it digs the loam of memory and explores how lovers
create their own stories and mythologies, Ridley's play is
completely and dizzyingly of itself. The writing seethes and
burns...Seldom has sexual love been explored on stage with such
ferocious honesty, brutality and melting tenderness.
*Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 28.4.11*
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