South Bend

Written by Martin McCormick. Directed by Ben Harrison
In association with PLATFORM

A touring production for main stage and studio theatres

27th July – 22nd Sept 2018

Previewed in Platform, Easterhouse, on 27th and 28th July 2018 before a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Scottish tour.

AWARDS

  • Shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Club Award

In 2006 Martin McCormick flew across the Atlantic to be reunited with a woman he had fallen passionately in love with, a California Girl. But she’s changed. Completely.

She’s in Indiana now, not California. With her step-mum who hates the British. Almost as soon as he’s arrived he’s on the road again, penniless and desperate to get home to Scotland.

Performed by Martin himself with Jess Chanliau (who plays some twenty-five parts) and live foley by David Pollock, South Bend is a tale of hope, of love, of a small country and a vast one, of a good Samaritan and a relationship gone bad.

Grid Iron audiences will recognise Martin from previous acting roles with the company, most notably as David, the narrator, in the 2010 tenth anniversary remount production of Decky Does a Bronco. Martin is now one of Scotland’s most exciting new playwrights having won the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland Best New Play in 2015 for Squash which Across the Arts described as “Hilarious, full of pithy one-liners and simmering with menace… Pretty much as perfect as it gets.”

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DATES & VENUES

7 & 28 July 2018
Platform, Easterhouse

1 – 27 Aug 2018
Gilded Balloon at the Museum

31 Aug & 1 Sept 2018
Byre Theatre, St Andrews

4 Sept 2018
Paisley Arts Centre

7 & 8 Sept 2018
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness

11 & 12 Sept 2018
Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

14 Sept 2018
Cumbernauld Theatre

19 – 22 Sept 2018
Tron Theatre, Glasgow

There were BSL interpreted performances on 9th August (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival Fringe), 8th Sept (Eden Court, Inverness) and 19th Sept (Tron Theatre, Glasgow).

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Production photography by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.

What The Press Said

“Fresh, funny, sad, happy and compelling.”

“Emphatically Scottish in its humour and outlook… hilarious!”

“intriguing”

“blackly comic”

“an absolute gem of a show”

“A sharp, bittersweet comedy”

“A superb hour of theatre.”

“full of charm and bonhomie”

“A neatly packaged hour full of fantastic performances and impressive technical feats.”

“You absolutely need to see South Bend.”

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Video

View the trailer for South Bend here…

Cast

Jess Chanliau

Martin McCormick

David A. Pollock

Production Team

Writer:
Martin McCormick

Director:
Ben Harrison

Producer:
Judith Doherty

Finance & Development Manager:
Deborah Crewe

Music & Live Foley:
David A. Pollock

Set & Costume Design:
Claire Halleran

Lighting Design:
Andrew Gannon

Video Design:
Lewis den Hertog

Production & Stage Manager:
Mickey Graham

Technical Manager:
Andrew Gannon

Deputy Stage Manager:
Lauren Desjardins

Set Construction:
Jamie Baxter

Scenic Artist:
Jude Bomphray

Print Design:
Emma Quinn

Print Image:
The 16K Design Works

PR:
The Corner Shop Scotland

Quilt made by:
QuiltedBlissBy Nadine (Etsy)

View Our Programme

To read more information about the show, including the Director’s Note and team biographies, have a look through our production programme.

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Download our programme pdf here

Supporters

The production was kindly supported by the following…

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