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Departmental Lecturer Barney Norris’s new play, Second Best<\/em>, inspired by the novel of the same name by David Foenkinos, opens on January 24th at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Starring Asa Butterfield (Sex Education<\/em>), the play is directed by Michael Longhurst and designed by Fly Davis, and runs till February 22nd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Book your tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Departmental Lecturer Barney Norris’s new play, Second Best, inspired by the novel of the same name by David Foenkinos, opens on January 24th at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. Starring Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), the play is directed by Michael Longhurst and designed by Fly Davis, and runs till February 22nd.\u00a0 Book your tickets here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-Ad","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2376,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2376","url_meta":{"origin":2245,"position":0},"title":"Barney Norris’s new musical, co-written with Sting, opens in Amsterdam","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"January 27, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Departmental Lecturer Barney Norris's collaboration with Sting, The Last Ship, is currently playing a sold-out run at the Royal Theatre Carre in Amsterdam, and will then tour to the Seine Musicale in Paris, the Glasshouse Theatre in Brisbane and The Metropolitan Opera New York, before returning to the Carre for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "MSt News"","block_context":{"text":"MSt News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Last-Ship.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Last-Ship.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Last-Ship.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Last-Ship.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Last-Ship.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2341,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2341","url_meta":{"origin":2245,"position":1},"title":"Barney Norris’s new play opens in Manchester","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"October 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Departmental Lecturer Barney Norris's latest play Going Out Out opens this week at HOME Manchester, in a co-production between HOME and Karl Sydow, prior to a London transfer in spring 2026. 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