Pink Mist

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Pink Mist

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 3m

Pink Mist is a verse drama about three young friends from Bristol who join the army and are deployed to the post-9/11 conflict in Afghanistan.

Image: 2015 Bristol Old Vic Production (Mark Douet)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Biography, Docudrama/History
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Within a short space of time all three return to the women in their lives – a wife, a mother, a girlfriend – all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service.

Drawing upon interviews with soldiers and their families, Pink Mist illuminates the timeless human cost of war and its often devastating effect upon the young lives pulled into its orbit.

Performing Groups
  • Time Period New Millennium/21st Century
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Intense Adult Themes

Media

“Conveys the trauma of war with devastating impact… eloquently fusing the topical and the timeless.” – The Independent

“A stark and brutal message that is given more poignancy through Owen Sheers’ beautiful, lyrical poem.” – The Stage

“Conveys the trauma of war with devastating impact. The rhythmic patterning of the verse, delivered with a ripe Bristolian lilt, gives the story and its insights into the war-fomenting cycle of love, grief and revenge, an immemorial feel, eloquently fusing the topical and the timeless.” – The Independent

Photos

  • Pink Mist

    Image: 2015 Bristol Old Vic Production (Mark Douet)

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers is an author, poet and playwright. He has published two poetry collections, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill which won a Somerset Maugham Award. His debut prose work The Dust Diaries, a non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe won the Welsh Book of the Year 2005. His ...
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