Up In Arms presents
Missing
by Barney Norris

31 January – 25 February 2012
Tuesday – Saturday at 7.30pm & Sundays at 4pm
Tickets £12 / £10

Workshop: Directing New Writing- 5pm, Friday 10th February 2012

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'This is my life. I want to do more with it than flip burgers.'

Thatcher's England, and Luke and Andy are facing the end of their childhoods. Luke is the first in the family to go to university; but as Andy looks for a way of escaping the life he was born into, he can't stop thinking about his father.

Surrounded by mixtapes, guitars and ambitions, the two brothers discover how easy it is to get lost in a country that doesn't look after its own.

Directed by Alice Hamilton.

Reviews

"See this memorable, touching, unsettling, occasionally funny, and thought-provoking play now and you might be one of those smug types who can claim down the line that you saw two fine young actors in a tiny venue before they made it big... Quality productions at Tristan Bates continue..." The British Theatre Guide

"...realistic and sharply considered...It's smart work from director Alice Hamilton." Telegraph

**** ‘Pitch-perfect’ Time Out on Barney Norris’ At First Sight (tour / Latitude Festival)
‘Spellbinding’ Independent on Up In Arms' Winterreise (various, inc. Tristan Bates Theatre)

Workshop

Directing New Writing
 
A workshop for writers, directors, and anyone with an interest in making new work for the stage, led by Barney Norris and Alice Hamilton.
 
Alice and Barney, co-artistic directors of Up In Arms theatre company and director and writer of MISSING, which runs at the Tristan Bates Theatre from 31 January - 25 February, lead a practical workshop exploring the processes of developing a new play for the stage - from recognising an idea, through generating scenes, characters and relationships, to preparing a script for rehearsal and seeing it into production. Using workshop devices that form the basis of their own process, they will demonstrate an approach to developing and staging new work that draws on the rehearsal techniques of Max Stafford-Clark and Peter Gill.

Barney is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers’ Programme, and his plays have been commissioned by the Bush Theatre and Salisbury Playhouse among others. He has worked with companies including Out of Joint, and also produced the critically-acclaimed staging of WINTEREISSE at the TBT last year.

5pm, Friday 10th February 2012
The Actors Centre
Free to all ticketholders to any performance of Missing at the Tristan Bates Theatre.
Places must be reserved in advance by email to tbt@actorscentre.co.uk