We Started to Sing

Description

I wish there could be a day where families came together and just said it all toeach other. Because then everyone would know it all, and there'd be nothingleft to hurt anyone. Sussex. London. Wiltshire. Northamptonshire. Wales. Over three decades, afamily spreads across the country, and the chord they made together starts tofray, the distance between them changing the music of their lives. A love song to the people who raised him, and a hymn to the bravery of ourbrief time on earth, Barney Norris's We Started to Sing premieres at the ArcolaTheatre, London, in May 2022.

Barney Norris is a playwright and novelist. His work has received awards from the International Theatre Institute, the Critics' Circle, the Evening Standard, the Society of Authors and the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Awards, among others, and been translated into eight languages. His plays include Visitors, Nightfall and an acclaimed adaptation of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; his novels include Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain.