Tender by Dave Harris follows the male strippers at the failing Dancing Bears Club. Its playwright and stars discuss sex, power and their research trip to Magic Mike Live<\/p>\n
When the LA wildfires burned last year, playwright Dave Harris watched as everyone\u2019s \u201ccrisis personalities\u201d emerged. \u201cMine,\u201d he recalls, \u201cwas that I was incredibly horny.\u201d During that period, when the power was out and he could see flames in two directions, he busied himself with three activities: \u201cHaving a lot of sex with my girlfriend, cooking all the food in our fridge, and finishing this play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Set in a failing strip club where nothing is off limits, Tender is as preoccupied with sex as its creator is. \u201cI have always been obsessed with sex,\u201d Harris says, \u201csince before I knew what it was. The four places I feel the most myself are writing, sex, cooking and dancing.\u201d His character descriptions dictate that all four performers for this show need to be astonishingly good looking: young hot, dad hot, arrogant hot, and inaccessibly beautiful. \u201cWe\u2019re really just trying to gird everyone\u2019s loins,\u201d Harris laughs.<\/p>\n
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