{"id":2376,"date":"2026-01-27T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:29:53","slug":"barney-norriss-new-musical-co-written-with-sting-opens-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2376","title":{"rendered":"Barney Norris’s new musical, co-written with Sting, opens in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Departmental Lecturer Barney Norris’s collaboration with Sting, The Last Ship<\/em>, 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 a second season in the autumn. You can book tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 a second season in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2462,"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":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Last-Ship.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-Ck","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2245,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2245","url_meta":{"origin":2376,"position":0},"title":"Barney Norris’s new play opens in London","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"January 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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