Arcola Theatre reopens with world premiere of Barney Norris’ WE STARTED TO SING

Following the successful Arcola Outside season last summer in their new purpose-built performance space, Arcola Theatre reopens with the world première of Barney Norris’ new play We Started To Sing, running from 19 May-18 June.

Also directed by Norris, We Started to Sing is the first in a new season of work, with full details to be announced.

“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.

Norris said: “This is a play about family and home, and I am fortunate to be able to make it with the Arcola, who have made me feel part of the family ever since they let me stage my first play, Visitors, there. It was at the Arcola that I first started trying to write plays out of love, in order to connect audiences with what they love in their own lives; We Started To Sing is an attempt to come home to that idea, and welcome audiences back from the isolation of the last few years. I am happy to be home.”

Later in the reopening season, will see the return of a body of work in Arcola Outside and Grimeborn from 1 August to 4 September featuring seven productions in Studio 1, alongside additional further plans for outside programming.

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