Review: Owen Sheers’s ‘I Saw A Man’ Examines Grief and Responsibility July 12, 2015 By SARAH LYALL Something very bad has happened, we learn in the first sentence of Owen Sheers’s new novel, “I Saw A Man,” something that “changed all of their lives.” (We are not yet sure whose lives these are.) It happened because one Read More …
★★★★★ “Pink Mist may be the most important play of the year. It is certainly one of the best.” What’s On Stage ★★★★★ “A remarkable experience…This ground-breaking piece of theatre is not one to be missed.” The Fix Magazine ★★★★★ “explodes onto the Bristol Old Vic stage with a young cast on top of its game. Read More …
Listen to Owen’s interview with Monocle (June 2015):
Welsh poet Alun Lewis was born 100 years ago, in July 1915. This play by contemporary Welsh poet Owen Sheers is adapted from the letters and poems of Lewis, one of the most vivid and lyrical voices of the second world war. It charts one man’s journey from pacifist to soldier, from husband to lover, Read More …
1st – 11th July 2015, 7.30pm, 2.30pm (Thursday 9th & Saturday 11th July matinees) Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, Arthur, Hads and Taff find their journey home is their Read More …
On 15 June 2015, The Jurors was revealed for the first time as part of an international gathering of thousands of invited guests to mark the 800thanniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede. To mark this occasion, Owen Sheers, poet, author and playwright was invited to write a dedication for the artwork, to Read More …
By Damian Barr Damian Barr’s Literary Salon tempts the world’s best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal stories all in front of a live audience at leading glamourous locations. Suave salonnière Damian Barr is your host. Don’t worry it’s not a book club – there’s no homework. Read More …
Genre: Neo Noir Thriller. Written by Owen Sheers. A Co-Production with Matador Pictures and Ffilm Cymru Wales. A Visit to America is set in New York in 1953 and follows a troubled private eye as he trails a British poet on an assignment for TIME Magazine, whom the poet is suing for libel. The private eye’s Read More …
One and All – Launching November 2015 ‘One and All’ is an online digital artwork that combines audio visual and interactive landscapes that invites you to explore a virtual coastal landscape and encounter three unique works that address our relationship with the sea. Sound artist Martyn Ware (Heaven17 / Human League), poet Owen Sheers and Read More …
‘I Saw A Man‘ is the BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. Owen Sheers’ compelling new story of the search for truth, the burden of secrets and the desire for redemption. Read by Mark Bazeley and abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. Ten episodes will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from Monday 1st June. They will also Read More …
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