A new play by an award-winning young writer opens tonight at the Burton Taylor Studio behind the Oxford Playhouse. At First Sight is the work of Barney Norris (above) and won last year’s one-act play competition organised by the Drama Association of Wales. It is staged by emerging theatre company Up in Arms. Described as “a play for an atomised world”, the drama chronicles the romance between two young people, Jack and Holly, who meet at New Year in Salzburg. Up in Arms’s press release says the action “coils around the moment when they first meet, when anything, for a moment, was possible”. From there, the story is made by “a collage of exchange and recollection, looping like a song around the idea of falling in love”. The production, which continues until Saturday night, is being directed by Alice Hamilton, a classics student at Magdalen College. Her previous work includes productions of West Side Story at the Oxford Playhouse and The Taming of the Shrew, which toured last summer to Oxford, Stratford, London and Japan, with the support of Thelma Holt.