Barney Norris’s work has received awards from the International Theatre Institute, the Critics’ Circle, the Evening Standard, the Society of Authors and the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Awards, among others, and been translated into nine languages. His plays include Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall, The Wellspring and adaptations of Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Lorca’s Blood Wedding; his novels include Undercurrent and Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain. He will be the Green Party candidate for his home town of Salisbury at the 2024 general election.