The Arcola Theatre have announced full casting for the world première of Barney Norris’ new play We Started To Sing, which marks the reopening of the theatre since the pandemic began, running from 19 May-18 June. 

Barney Norris directs Barbara Flynn (High Society, Old Vic), David Ricardo-Pearce (Kiss Me Kate, Watermill Theatre), Naomi Petersen (Baskerville!, Mercury Theatre), George Taylor (The Trial of Ubu, Hampstead Theatre) and Robin Soans (Uncle Vanya, Hampstead Theatre).

“I wish there could be a day where families came together and just said it all to each other. Because then everyone would know it all, and there’d be nothing left to hurt anyone.”

Sussex. London. Wiltshire. Northamptonshire. Wales. Over three decades, a family spreads across the country, and the chord they once made together starts to fray. How will the distance growing between them change the music of their lives?

We Started To Sing is a love song to the people who raised him, and a hymn to the bravery of our brief lives.

The production is designed by Frankie Bradshaw, with lighting by Bethany Gupwell and sound by Jamie Lu.

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