Pink Mist in rehearsal at Bristol Old Vic. Photo by Mark Douet.
Best friends Arthur, Hads and Taff were barely out of their teens when they were deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, they find their journey home is their greatest battle.
TOP 10 PLAY OF 2015
The Guardian, The Observer
Owen Sheers’ Pink Mist was inspired by interviews with retired servicemen, and bravely exposes the mental scars of war.
“Fearlessly lyrical in its imagery” (The Times), this critically acclaimed show matches Sheers’ haunting verse with a dream-like physical language that sings with love, grief and friendship.
Pink Mist will also run at Bristol Old Vic from 16 Feb – 5 Mar 2016
Emma trained at Nottingham Trent, and has worked as a set and costume designer for productions throughout the UK since graduating in 2001.
For Bristol Old Vic, Emma has worked as costume co-designer for The Crucible; designer for Pink Mist, Short Fuses, Brave, Two; costume designer for Dido & Aeneas (Bristol Proms); revival designer for Swallows and Amazons; costume supervisor for Sleeping Beauty and World Cup Final 1966. Other costume work includes: The Little Mermaid, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Life and Times of Fanny Hill.
Other designs include: Macbeth (RNT Education); Star of Wonder (Theatre in the Quarter); Engineers Blue (Brassworks Theatre); A Laughing Matter (Alma Tavern); His Dark Materials, Mr Benn, The Best Christmas Present, Great Expectations, Cymbeline, Davy Jones Locker, Dickens and the Great Operatic Disaster, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Flies, Sweeney Todd, Twelfth Night, The Voyage of Lost Dreams (Nuffield Theatre); Sprout, Walking Out, Chaser (Proteus Theatre); Seize the Day (Hijinx Theatre); Cold Comfort Farm (Nottingham Playhouse); Not Now Bernard, The Railway Children, The Drawer Boy (New Perspective Theatre Co); Bollywood Baraat (Art Asia/City Eye Films).
Emma has also worked in film and television, and has guest lectured and lead workshops in set design and costume for the stage.
George is Associate Director at Bristol Old Vic, and Co-Artistic Director of Theatre Ad Infinitum. Highlights include Translunar Paradise (director, writer, co-deviser, and performer) a sell-out at Barbican as part of the London International Mime Festival (LIMF) 2012, which picked up nine awards and toured the globe for three years; Light (director, writer, co-deviser, performer of live vocals) met with critical acclaim, its London premier sold out at Barbican as part of LIMF 2015. In December 2014, George won the Quercus Trust Award becoming Associate Director at Bristol Old Vic in partnership with National Theatre; he continues his role at Ad Infinitum part time.
John was the founding director of Company of Angels, producing new work for young audiences. He was formerly Artistic Director of Oxford Stage Company and was the founding director of Actors Touring Company (ATC). John’s own plays for theatre are translated into several languages and published by Oberon and Methuen. John is currently Tutor in writing for performance at Ruskin College Oxford.
Jon studied composition at the London College of Music and electrocaoustic music at Dartington. Music / sound scores for theatre include Spring Storm, Beyond The Horizon and The Holy Rosenbergs (National Theatre); Bakersfield Mist (Duchess), Yerma, Idomeneus (Gate); Bracken Moor, Mermaid (Shared Experience), Richard III (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Sheffield Crucible); The Duchess Of Malfi (Nottingham Playhouse); The Norman Conquests (Liverpool Playhouse); The Mother (Tricycle / Bath Theatre Royal); Things We Do For Love (Bath Theatre Royal / national tour) and many other productions with theatres including Northampton Royal & Derngate, Northern Stage, Bath Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Birmingham Rep, Theatr Clwyd, Derby Playhouse & Salisbury Playhouse.
Screen work: scores for numerous documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and Al Jazeera and over 30 short films.
He has also created music / sound designs for over 20 BBC radio dramas, including the original Radio 4 adaptation of Pink Mist.
www.jonnicholls.com
Owen 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. His latest novel, I Saw a Man, was published in June 2015. 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. His verse drama Pink Mist was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and won the Hay Festival Poetry Medal and the Wales Book of the Year 2014. He has been Artist in Residence for the Welsh Rugby Union and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University.
