Rude Mechs is proud to present 

TENDER ROUGH ROUGH TENDER

a workshop production of a new play by sarah saltwick
produced by groundswell
as part of Rude Mechs’ Rude Fusion series

When: August 21 – 24, (Fri – Mon) at 8:00 p.m.; August 27 – 29, (Thurs – Sat) at 8:00 p.m., and  August 30 (Sun) at 2:00 p.m.
Where: The Off Center
Tickets: All tickets $15.00
Tickets Available at: http://rudemechs.com/shows/trrt.htm

About TENDER ROUGH ROUGH TENDER 

It’s the hottest summer on record in Austin, Texas. Bell is at capacity, working to empty her life; Mike is trying to fill his up. As Bell serves pancakes at a 24-hour diner, she dissolves her troubles in drink – lots and lots of drink. Mike’s sorrow over losing a woman he rescued from her burning house feeds his need to conquer his loneliness and the wildfire blazing just outside of town. They meet at a party, but it takes the whole play for them to really see each other through sex, isolation, natural and unnatural disasters.TENDER ROUGH ROUGH TENDER asks us to look again at what we think we know, and asks us all to tell each other how we want to get the things we need.

TENDER ROUGH ROUGH TENDER is a new play by Sarah Saltwick receiving its first developmental production this August. This maiden effort of groundswell, a new theatre company based in Austin, is directed by Jess Hutchinson and features actors Joseph Garlock and Hannah Burkhauser, with design by Anne McMeeking, Rachel Atkinson, and Toto Miranda of Austin-based band The Octopus Project.

groundswell is all about offering home-grown opportunities for artists in Austin to make new plays, with an emphasis on collaboration between playwright, director, and creative team. Rude Mechs’ Rude Fusionprogram is all about ensuring new companies like groundswell can focus their resources on their production by co-producing their work and providing free rehearsal and production space, free marketing support, and our opinions if they want them.

About groundswell

groundswell creates new, homegrown theatre. Supporting theatre-makers in and of Austin, Texas, we believe that live performance is vital to the evolving cultural conversation of our city and our country. We believe in gathering the forces around us in order to reflect and interrogate the world in which we work. We cultivate agility in our production and administrative processes, and create systems to specifically support each project we undertake. Artists who make work with groundswell believe in dramaturgical curiosity, close and rigorous collaboration, and that seeing a play should be a damn good time. For more information, visit http://groundswellatx.wix.com/trrt. Or keep up to date with groundswell on Twitter:@groundswellATX
 

About Rude Mechs

Rude Mechs is an Austin-based collective theatre company that has created a genre-defying slate of over 30 original plays that we have produced at our venue, The Off Center, in Austin, TX, since 1999. We manage The Off Center, give it away as much as we can, and rent it as cheaply as possible to support Austin’s arts community. We run Off Center Teens – a summer camp in autobiographical writing for performance. And when we are lucky, we get to tour our work. Our most recent production Stop Hitting Yourself, premiered in Lincoln Center’s LCT3 program in New York in January 2014, toured to Dallas and is on its way to San Francisco. Our play Now Now Oh Now, a National Theatre Pilot selectee, completed a six-city national tour. And our play The Method Gun has toured to such far-flung destinations as New York City, Los Angeles, New Haven, Columbus, Boston, Portland, Philadelphia, and Brisbane (Australia).