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Second Best review – Asa Butterfield is first-class as Harry Potter runner-up

Barney Norris’s adaptation of David Foenkinos’s novel shows us a man who just missed out on stardom and is now facing fatherhood

The Guardian - UK

Sex Education star cast in Harry Potter-inspired one man play

The production will be Asa Butterfield’s first ever theatre role

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Why Am I So Single?; The Band Back Together; Our Country’s Good – review

Dating disasters fuel a joyful new musical from the creators of Six; three old band members reunite in Barney Norris’s low-key elegy to lost youth. Plus, a hit-and-miss revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s penal colony classic

The Guardian - UK

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The Band Back Together review – witty reflections on youth and middle-age

A trio of friends reconvene in their home town to play together for the first time in two decades

The Guardian - UK

Visitors review – searing study of ageing family frictions

Barney Norris’s revival radiates the pain of older parents trapped on deteriorating paths, while their son and end-of-life au pair struggle to find their own

The Guardian - UK

Undercurrent by Barney Norris review – a fine study of fate v free will

A man’s encounter with the woman whose life he saved triggers this heartfelt tale of a search for home and meaning

The Guardian - UK

Undercurrent by Barney Norris review – a meditation on love and loss

The author and playwright’s latest novel incisively captures the search for meaning in uncertain times

The Guardian - UK

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The week in theatre: The Glass Menagerie; Girl on an Altar; We Started to Sing

Amy Adams’s star power fails to illuminate underpowered Tennessee Williams; Eileen Walsh burns bright as Clytemnestra; and Barbara Flynn and Robin Soans elevate a family nostalgia fest

The Guardian - UK

We Started to Sing review – Barney Norris’s fragmented family ode

A tender series of vignettes explore family dynamics in Barney Norris’s personal play, but it needs some sand in the oyster

The Guardian - UK

We Started to Sing at the Arcola review: this rambling family yarn is intriguing but exhausting

Barney Norris has mined his family’s stories but its meandering structure gives it the air of an anecdote that goes on too long

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