Review: Tender Rough Rough Tender by Sarah Saltwick, groundswell at the Off Center

by David Glen Robinson
Published on August 23, 2015

The actors are intense and spot-on in their characterizations. Joseph Garlock plays Mike with a sweet center appropriate to the character, when he could have played it all muscle. Hannah Burkhauser definitely has a huge emotional range.

The Fourth of July, 2011, in Austin was incredibly hot, fireworks were banned, the Bastrop Lost Pines burned down that summer, and restaurants charged for ice water, but only if patrons requested it.  This is the atmosphere of the incredibly hot Tender Rough Rough Tender by Sarah Saltwick, now playing at The Off-Center in east Austin.  The sit-com joke of taking cold drinks by throwing them in one’s own face rather than swallowing them is …

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