Barney Norris

Our Public House post-show talk: What can we do today that will make tomorrow better?
Our Public House post-show talk: What can we do today that will make tomorrow better?

Our Public House post-show talk: What can we do today that will make tomorrow better?

By Terri Paddock|2026-07-10T10:28:58+01:001 July 2026|Tags: Barney Norris, Dash Arts, Fergus O'Donnell, Josephine Burton, Kit Esuruoso, Marylebone Theatre, Our Public House|

When an entire community spoils their ballots triggering a historic by-election, what happens next? In Barney Norris' new play with music Our Public House, the answer is: everyone ends up in the pub.

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Our Public House
Our Public House

Our Public House

By Terri Paddock|2026-06-23T15:10:17+01:0031 May 2026|Tags: Barney Norris, Dash Arts, Josephine Burton, Marylebone Theatre, Our Public House|

What if we could have a real discussion about politics in the pub - and be heard by people who could make a difference? Our Public House, Barney Norris' heart-warming play with music for Dash Arts, comes to London's Marylebone Theatre.

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Blood Wedding post-show video and photos: Barney Norris imbues Lorca with English humour and myth
Blood Wedding post-show video and photos: Barney Norris imbues Lorca with English humour and myth

Blood Wedding post-show video and photos: Barney Norris imbues Lorca with English humour and myth

By Terri Paddock|2025-05-12T11:38:43+01:0010 May 2025|Tags: Alix Dunmore, Barney Norris, Blood Wedding, Christopher Neenan, David Fielder, Esme Lonsdale, Kiefer Moriarty, Lorca, Nell Williams, Omnibus Theatre, Tricia Thorns|

Barney Norris' darkly comic reworking of Lorca's 1932 Spanish classic premiered in 2020 at Salisbury Playhouse, near the real-life village hall where his version of the disastrous nuptials occurs. It now gets its London premiere at Clapham's Omnibus Theatre.

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Blood Wedding
Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding

By Terri Paddock|2025-04-05T22:03:16+01:005 April 2025|Tags: Alix Dunmore, Barney Norris, Blood Wedding, David Fielder, Lorca, Omnibus Theatre, Tricia Thorns|

Barney Norris’ dark comedy brings Lorca’s passionate 1932 Spanish classic Blood Wedding blazing into 2025 England with a limited run at London's Omnibus Theatre.

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From stage to page: Barney Norris’ Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain + 12 quotes
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From stage to page: Barney Norris’ Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain + 12 quotes

From stage to page: Barney Norris’ Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain + 12 quotes

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-08T09:21:11+00:0023 May 2016|Tags: #Quotes, Barney Norris, Eventide, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, Salisbury, Up In Arms Theatre, Visitors|

The advert for Barney Norris' in The Sunday Times was just the prompt I

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My theatre diary: ‘New’ plays The First Man, Ticking, Teddy Ferrara, Eventide
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My theatre diary: ‘New’ plays The First Man, Ticking, Teddy Ferrara, Eventide

My theatre diary: ‘New’ plays The First Man, Ticking, Teddy Ferrara, Eventide

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T13:00:13+00:0022 October 2015|Tags: Anthony Head, Antony Biggs, Arcola Theatre, Barney Norris, Christopher Shinn, Dominic Cooke, Donmar Warehouse, Eugene O'Neill, Eventide, Jermyn Street Theatre, Matthew Marsh, Niamh Cusack, Teddy Ferrara, The First Man, Ticking, Tom Hughes, Up In Arms Theatre|

The new play's the thing, even when it's very old.... Here are four I've seen over

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INTERVIEW (pt2): Barney Norris on Peter Gill, Van Gogh writing and theatres as ’empathy engines’
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INTERVIEW (pt2): Barney Norris on Peter Gill, Van Gogh writing and theatres as ’empathy engines’

INTERVIEW (pt2): Barney Norris on Peter Gill, Van Gogh writing and theatres as ’empathy engines’

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T13:02:01+00:0028 September 2015|Tags: Alice Hamilton, Arcola Theatre, Barney Norris, Eventide, Peter Gill, Salisbury Playhouse, Up In Arms Theatre, Visitors|

Playwright Barney Norris has followed his award-winning debut Visitors with Eventide, which is now running at London's

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INTERVIEW (pt1): Eventide’s Barney Norris on monoculture, Thomas Hardy and Salisbury dreams
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INTERVIEW (pt1): Eventide’s Barney Norris on monoculture, Thomas Hardy and Salisbury dreams

INTERVIEW (pt1): Eventide’s Barney Norris on monoculture, Thomas Hardy and Salisbury dreams

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T13:02:08+00:0025 September 2015|Tags: Alice Hamilton, And Then Come the Nightjars, Arcola Theatre, Barney Norris, Bea Robert, Eventide, Gareth Machin, Mehmet Ergen, Salisbury Playhouse, Thomas Hardy, Up In Arms Theatre, Visitors|

Barney Norris with Eventide cast member Ellie Piercy in rehearsals I've been looking

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Critics’ Circle winners contradict Standard: any bets on Oliviers?
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Critics’ Circle winners contradict Standard: any bets on Oliviers?

Critics’ Circle winners contradict Standard: any bets on Oliviers?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T13:13:47+00:0027 January 2015|Tags: 1927, A View from the Bridge, Almeida Theatre, Barney Norris, Blithe Spirit, Critics Circle Theatre Awards, Es Devlin, Golem, Gypsy, Helen McCrory, Ivo van Hove, King Charles III, Mark Strong, Mike Bartlett, Olivier Awards, Patsy Ferran, Rupert Goold, The Nether, Young Vic|

Ivo van Hove's A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic wins two

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My theatre diary: Plays to make you think – Widowers’ Houses, Visitors, Hope and Sirens
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My theatre diary: Plays to make you think – Widowers’ Houses, Visitors, Hope and Sirens

My theatre diary: Plays to make you think – Widowers’ Houses, Visitors, Hope and Sirens

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T13:15:19+00:0029 December 2014|Tags: Alex Waldmann, Arcola Theatre, Barney Norris, Bush Theatre, George Bernard Shaw, Hope, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, Linda Bassett, Ontroerend Goed, Orange Tree Theatre, Paul Higgins, Political plays, Post-show Q&As, Recommendations, Robin Soans, Royal Court Theatre, Simon Stephens, Sirens, Spellbound Productions, Up in Arms, Visitors, White Bear Theatre, Widowers' Houses|

Ontroerend Goed tackles feminism in Sirens at Soho Theatre If your brain has

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