Visitors by Barney Norris

Visitors by Barney Norris

This funny, life-affirming play is infused with humour and humanity. Tender and touching, Visitors is an elegiac celebration of a lifetime shared.

Infinitely touching..a mature and tender play. [Norris] is an authentic new voice. * Four stars - Guardian *
Barney Norris's first full-length play is astonishingly accomplished. Norris is a perceptive and humane craftsman...he has created an aching love story. He is a talent to watch. * Five stars - Evening Standard *
...an absolute beauty, by turns funny, tender and desperately sad. There is great richness and an almost poetic resonance in the writing so that we can almost see the play of light across their fields and apprehend the jolting dislocation of dementia. It is much harder to write interestingly about happiness than it is about misery, but Norris often does just that. * Four stars - Telegraph *
It's a hefty subject - the way dementia destroys people's minds and families - but Norris's excellent play deals with it with surprising lightness of touch and humour. * Time Out London *
A tender, elegiac, beautifully written and observed play * Mail on Sunday *
Remember the name Barney Norris. He’s outstanding. * The Times *
Barney Norris’s astonishingly accomplished debut. * Evening Standard *
An absolute beauty, by turns funny, tender and desperately sad. * The Telegraph *
‘Infinitely touching. The real pleasure lies in discovering an authentic new voice.’ * Guardian *

Barney Norris’ plays are Visitors, Fear of Music and At First Sight. His first pamphlet of poems, Falling, has just been published, and his first book, To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill, is forthcoming from Seren. Theatre as director includes I Cinna (St James Theatre), Ashes (Arcola Theatre for the Miniaturists) and Schnapps (Lyric Hammersmith). He is an associate of Out of Joint, runs workshop programs for Salisbury Playhouse and Southampton Nuffield, and leads workshops at theatres across the country.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781783191048
ISBN 10	178319104X
Title	Visitors
Author	Barney Norris
Series	Oberon Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2014-02-04
Number of pages	88
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.