While We're Here

Barney Norris is a critically acclaimed playwright, poet and author. For his debut full-length play Visitors, which ran at that Arcola before transferring to the Bush in November 2014, he won the Critics Circle Award 2014 for Most Promising Playwright. He was also shortlisted for the prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Most Promising Playwright, the Writers Guild of Great Britain 2014 award for Best Play and the Best New Play Award at the Off West End Theatre Awards 2014. Barney's debut novel, Five Rivers Met in a Wooded Plain, was published by Transworld (Doubleday) in April 2016.

An elegant and moving piece of writing, well crafted, subtle and layered, a play full of ache.