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Barney Norris FRSL [1] [2]
Early life [ edit ]
Norris was born in Chichester in West Sussex, later moving to Wiltshire where he attended Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury . He studied English at Keble College, Oxford , and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London .
After leaving university, he set up the touring Up in Arms Theatre Company [3] Thelma Holt , Michael Frayn , Peter Gill , and Max Stafford-Clark , before becoming a full-time writer. He is an associate artist at the Watermill Theatre ,[4] University of Oxford , and reviews fiction regularly for The Guardian
He is an amabassador for Alabaré Christian Care , a charity supporting homeless adults, young people, veterans, and those with learning disabilities based in his home city of Salisbury, and a patron of Studio Theatre Salisbury and Salisbury Literary Festival. His advocacy work on behalf of writers and writing includes currently serving as Chair of the Society of Authors ' Scriptwriters Committee and as a committee members of the SoA Sustainability Committee, and as a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain negotiating team.
Writing [ edit ]
Norris's early plays were produced by his company Up in Arms, usually on tour and often in partnership with other theatres.[5] Visitors [6] Salisbury Playhouse ,[7] Bush Theatre ,[8] Oxford Playhouse , the Arcola Theatre , the Royal and Derngate , Out of Joint , and the Bridge Theatre , among others. His first novel, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain , was published in 2016; he has since published three other novels, including Undercurrent in 2022, and two books of non-fiction.
Politics [ edit ]
In February 2024, Norris was announced as the Green Party of England and Wales candidate for the Salisbury constituency at the 2024 general election .[9]
2014 – Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for Visitors
2015 – Selected as one of the Evening Standard' s Progress 1000
2016 – Betty Trask Award for Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
2016 – South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Award for Literature
2018 – One Book Award for Turning For Home
2018 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2019 – Award for Excellence in International Theatre from the International Theatre Institute
2023 – Hawthornden Foundation Award
Selected works [ edit ]
Fiction [ edit ]
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain (2016)
Turning For Home (2018)
The Vanishing Hours (2019)
Undercurrent (2022)
Theatre [ edit ]
Visitors
Every You Every Me (2015, Salisbury Playhouse and tour)
Eventide (2015, Up in Arms, Arcola Theatre and tour)
Echo's End (2017, Salisbury Playhouse)
While We're Here (2017, Up in Arms, Bush Theatre, BBC Radio 4 and tour)
Nightfall (2018, Bridge Theatre)
We Started To Sing (2022, Arcola Theatre)
A Stranger Comes To Town (2023, An Tobar and Mull Theatres)
The Band Back Together (2024, Arcola Theatre)
Adaptations [ edit ]
The Remains of the Day (2019, Out of Joint, Northampton Royal and Derngate, Oxford Playhouse and tour)
Blood Wedding (2020, Up in Arms and Salisbury Playhouse)
Collaborations [ edit ]
The Wellspring with David Owen Norris (2022, Northampton Royal and Derngate and tour)
While We're Here (2018, BBC Radio 4)
Song and Dance (2019, BBC Radio 4)
The Queen of the Isle of Wight (2021, BBC Radio 4)
Non-fiction [ edit ]
To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill (2014)
The Wellspring: Conversations with David Owen Norris (2018)
References [ edit ]
^ "Up in Arms – A touring theatre company" .
^ "The Watermill Theatre - Creative Associates" . Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020 .
^ Billington, Michael (9 March 2014). "Visitors review – 'Infinitely touching' – via www.theguardian.com.
^ Isherwood, Charles (2 January 2015). "Fusillades Piercing a Fog of Dementia" . The New York Times .
^ "Echo's End : Wiltshire Creative" . www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk .
^ "While We're Here" . bushtheatre.co.uk .
^ "Barney Norris named Green Party candidate for Salisbury" . Salisbury Journal . Retrieved 7 February 2024 .
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