The play, South Bend is to appear at Paisley Arts Centre later tonight.
In 2006 playwright and actor Martin McCormick flew across the Atlantic to be reunited with a woman he had fallen passionately in love with. But in the four months of their absence she had changed. Completely. She’s in Indiana now, not California, living with her step-mum who hates the British. And almost as soon as he’s arrived he’s on the road again, penniless and desperate to get home to Scotland.
South Bend, based on Martin’s personal experience, muses on journeys, on the dusty road, on long-distance love dissolving into the pixilated blur of Skype, on the vast distances of the Atlantic Ocean and the American continent and of men and women separated by a common language.
South Bend is on at Paisley Arts Centre tonight, Tuesday 4th September at 7.30pm. You can buy tickets here.