Explosive TENDER NAPALM currently on tour

David Mercatali’s production of Philip Ridley’s play, TENDER NAPALM, featuring Lara Rossi, has returned for a UK Tour which is currently visiting various venues across the country before a run at the Southwark Playhouse (11th to 23rd June 2012).

David was longlisted for Outstanding Newcomer in the Evening Standard Theatre awards for the production’s first run in 2011, as well as being selected as part of Lyn Gardner and Susannah Clapp’s Guardian Top 10 Theatre choices of the year.

Possibly one of the most challenging, raw, pulsating, energetic, violent and poetic evenings spent in the theatre... Lara Rossi moves around the stage with cat like precision, her performance beautifully judged
Whatsonstage ***** (2012)

But the chemistry generated between Lara Rossi and Tom Byam Shaw is genuinely explosive. And for all the unmentionable desire to employ hand grenades as sex toys, there's an underlying tenderness to their relationship that makes the play seem like a treatise on the art of killing someone softly.
Guardian (2012)

Viciously funny and deeply sensual... simply and sensationally staged by Mercatali
Guardian (2011)

Presented with sensitivity and power by Mercatali
Financial Times (2011)

Details on tour dates can be found here.

(Photo credit: Camilla Greenwell)