The playwright and director, who has died aged 86, completed DH Lawrence’s revolution in spotlighting stories of working peoplePeter Gill: a theatrical visionary with an unsparing honestyI…
The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than anger I feel that Athol Fugard and his wife, Paula Fourie, changed m…
As the director tours Rita, Sue and Bob Too for his company Out of Joint, his one-time assistant celebrates a career spent speaking up for the nation " and nurturing talents such as Andrea D…
Is it possible that a play written almost 60 years ago still exerts strong influence on new writing theatre today? Barney Norris says it's time theatre followed a new, less angry, religionMy…
I got into theatre for the politics. When I was 14, someone bought me a copy of Simon Callow's book, Being an Actor. In the book, Callow described a company called Joint Stock which he had w…
As Up In Arms prepares to present Winterreise at the Tristan Bates Theatre next week, Co-Artistic Director Barney Norris looks back at the work's long life and his association with it. Six y…
I want to tell a story about an event in my life which helped direct me towards working in theatre. It was an unlikely piece of career advice, but it had a profound effect. Three years ago, …
Last weekend I had the thrill of seeing my play go on at Latitude Festival. The play, At First Sight, had been produced on tour in the new year by Up In Arms, the theatre company of which I'…