When watching rehearsals of the new stage adaptation of his memoir Maggie & Me, Damian Barr had to resist the urge to help. “Seeing an actor playing you being bundled by bullies into a wardrobe and then that wardrobe being pushed down a hill and exploding on stage, I wanted to run on in rehearsals and save the actors or myself,” says the author. “And I wanted to save my mother, my brother, my sister and my father from what is about to happen.”
What is about to happen is what version 2.0, a new take on Barr’s memoir mounted by the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) now touring Scotland and the north of England.
