One of the drama highlights at the Devonshire Park Theatre this season is Owen Sheers affecting and deeply moving; Pink Mist (March 7-11) which comes to Eastbourne for its only South East date.
This hugely acclaimed vibrant, lyrical stylistic production has received unanimous 4 and 5 star reviews and comes to Eastbourne following 2016’s sell-out London run.
Three school-mates, three boys on the verge of adulthood, three lads with dreams bigger than the prospects that staying where they are can offer.
The army – a career, opportunity, adventure, skills and excitement. Three soldiers off to Afghanistan. Three fighters doing what they have been trained to do. Three men returning to their loved ones, wounded, scarred, dead or alive.
The physical and psychological aftershocks of war take their toll on each one of them and each of the loved ones they left behind. For Arthur, Hads and Taff, the journey home is their greatest battle.
Inspired by 30 interviews with returned servicemen, Owen Sheers’ Pink Mist tells their story with haunting verse, dynamic staging and starkly honest performances.
When Pink Mist opened at the Bristol Old Vic in 2015, it was hailed by both critics and audience as a visceral, poetic and important piece of theatre. There where immediate calls for it to be seen by a wider audience now the 2017 tour comes to Eastbourne for its only South East date.
Owen Sheers has been described as “the war poet of his generation”. He is an author, poet and playwright whose first novel, Resistance was translated into eleven languages and adapted into a film. Owen’s writing for theatre includes National Theatre of Wales’ site-specific production in Port Talbot, The Passion; The Two Worlds of Charlie F, which won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, and NTW’s Mametz. Pink Mist was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and won the Hay Festival Poetry Medal and the Wales Book of the Year 2014.
Event: PINK MIST by Owen Sheers
Where: Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
When: Tuesday March 7 – Saturday, March 11
Time: Nightly performances at 7.45pm, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm
Tickets: From £15.50
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