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BE NEAR ME

Adapted to the stage by Ian McDiarmid
22 January – 14 March 2009

Father David Anderton is assigned to a crippled Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast, where sectarianism is rife. He is a cultivated - if naive and unworldly - man, ill-suited to his new parish. Drifting from his peers, he is drawn to Mark and Lisa, a feral teenage couple who attend the nearby school. Their untamed nights of booze and drugs are as exotic and entrancing to him as his solitary and cloistered life is to them.

But, as events take a perilous direction, this combustible liaison will leave Father David's world in pieces.

Adapted for the stage by Ian McDiarmid from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me premiered in a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and the Donmar Warehouse in January 2009.

CAST
in order of speaking

Father David Anderton Ian McDiarmid
Mrs Poole Blythe Duff
Mr Dorran Jimmy Yuill
Lisa Helen Mallon
Cameron David McGranaghan
Mark Richard Madden
Mrs Nolan Kathryn Howden
Mr Nolan Jimmy Chisholm
Mr Poole Benny Young
Mrs Anderton Colette O’Neil

PRODUCTION

Director John Tiffany
Designer Peter McKintosh
Lighting Designer Guy Hoare
Sound Designer Gareth Fry
Musical Director Davey Anderson
Casting Director Anne McNulty
Company Stage Manager Pandora Elrington
Deputy Stage Manager Sarah Alford-Smith
Assistant Stage Manager Laura Benedict
Assistant Director Abbey Wright
Associate Sound Designer Matt Padden
Lighting Supervisor Mhairhi Burton
Sound Supervisor Claire Carroll
Wardrobe Supervisor Stephanie Thorburn
Wardrobe Assistant Aileen Sherry