Be Near Me
- By:
- Andrew O'Hagan, adapted by Ian McDiarmid, who also performs
- Management:
- Donmar Warehouse and National Theatre of Scotland
- Cast:
- Jimmy Chisholm, Blythe Duff, Kath Howden, David McGranaghan, Richard Madden, Helen Mallon, Colette O'Neill, Benny Young, Jimmy Yuill
- Director:
- John Tiffany
- Design:
- Peter McIntosh
- Sound:
- Gareth Fry
- Lighting:
- Guy Hoare
- Musical direction:
- Davey Anderson
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for Be Near Me items Search for tickets at TicketmasterThis intensely moving play, which never overstates, tells the story of a man gradually acknowledging his own unhappiness. Father David Anderton (Ian McDiarmid) works in a community in Ayrshire that struggles with unemployment, poverty and the raw ugliness which scars damaged people. Anderton's Oxford education, classical music, bookishness, love of fine wine and suppressed homosexuality makes him a misfit who eventually admits that 'the church has been a beautiful hiding place'. Getting personally involved in the lives of two teenagers (one of whom says that her life ambition is to own a pair of Gucci sunglasses) that he teaches part-time at the local comprehensive is bound to lead to trouble, although the scene where he takes Mark (Richard Madden) and Lisa (Helen Mallon) out to explore Ailsa Craig is beautiful in its risky innocence...
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