Be near me
By: Ian McDiarmid ; adapted from the novel by Andrew O'Hagan.
Contributors: O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968-
Series: FF plays
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780571249688
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Drama; Problem youth -- Scotland -- Fiction; Scandals -- Drama; Scotland -- Drama
Genres: Fiction; Drama
Description: 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 liasion will leave Father David's world in pieces.