New Barney Norris play in Salisbury Playhouse's 2017 season

Salisbury Playhouse's 2017 season will include a new play by award-winning Visitors author Barney Norris.

Entitled Echo's End, the new piece is a First World War-set family drama to be directed by Norris' frequent collaborator Alice Hamilton. Both Norris and Hamilton are former members of Salisbury Playhouse’s Stage 65 Youth Theatre and jointly run Up in Arms theatre company.

The Playhouse is also presenting As The Crow Flies a new commission by Hattie Naylor based on a true story of a woman who befriends a wounded crow, which opens in Bromfield Village Hall before a rural tour.

Other season highlights include Julia Hills in a return run of Worst Wedding Ever by Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall. Directed by the Playhouse's artistic director Gareth Machin, the play opens in Salisbury before touring to Ipswich and Hornchurch. There will also be a revival of Rodney Ackland's Before The Party, and the sixth Theatre Fest West which celebrates theatre across South West England.

In the new season the Playhouse will also welcome the national touring productions of The Play That Goes Wrong, The Verdict, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and the Watermill staging of Twelfth Night.