Studio Theatre Presents TENDER AGE A New Play By George Brant

Studio Theatre concludes its 2021-2022 all-digital season with Tender Age, a new play by George Brant, directed by collaborator Henry Godinez, and starring Bobby Moreno, streaming at studiotheatre.org July 2-25, 2021.

Martín has recently started working as a guard at a Walmart-turned-Detention Center on the Texas border. First he learns he's working at a tender age facility-keeping watch over children, some as young as his own, who have been separated from their families. Then, as a pandemic sweeps through the facility, Martín faces his own assumptions about his citizen status as a first-generation American with Mexican parents-and must decide what to do about his growing ethical unease about his work.

Set during the Trump Administration's Family Separation policies, Tender Age arrives at Studio as the Biden Administration presides over an unprecedented influx of arrivals at the US-Mexico border. Tender Age was workshopped at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 2019.

Studio last presented George Brant's work with Grounded in the 2013-2014 season.

When Martín applies for a position at the local Walmart-turned-Detention Center, he is dismayed to discover he'll be working as a security guard for a warehouse full of children, some as young as his own, separated from their families at the nearby Texan border. The steady paycheck, however, outweighs Martín's misgivings-until a strange epidemic grips the facility, and Martín faces a moral reckoning. Stark and propulsive, Tender Age joins Brant's Grounded (Studio, 2014) as a play about living at the edge of your ethics.

Available to stream from studiotheatre.org on-demand from July 2-25, 2021. Single tickets: $37, plus service fees.