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Resistance (DVD)
Michael Sheen, Stanislav Ianevski, Iwan Rheon, Andrea Riseborough, Kimberley Nixon, …
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Amit Gupta directs this adaptation of Owen Sheers' debut novel
starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen. It's 1944 and D-Day
has failed. The United Kingdom is now under Nazi occupation. In the
remote Welsh village of Olchon, farmer's wife Sarah Lewis
(Riseborough) wakes up one morning to find her husband has
mysteriously disappeared along with all the other men in the
village. Then, as they wait for news, a German patrol arrives in
their valley on an undisclosed mission. During the harsh winter
that follows, the two groups are forced to pull together to survive
the last days of the war. Cut off from the conflict around them,
both the villagers and the Nazis find the lines between
collaboration, duty, occupation and survival becoming less defined
as time goes on...
While the town awaits the arrival of the Company Man, a stranger
appears in the windswept dunes, singing songs to the sea. This is
just the start of three days of unearthly events in Port Talbot
that see the Teacher soothe a suicide bomber and the dead rising
from the walls of an underpass. In the Gospel of Us, Owen Sheers
reimagines his three day dramatization of the Passion for the
National Theatre of Wales, set in the streets and clubs of Port
Talbot and starring Michael Sheen.
After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London
to start again. Living on a quiet street in Hampstead, he develops
a close bond with the Nelson family next door: Josh, Samantha and
their two young daughters. The friendship at first seems to offer
the prospect of healing, but then a devastating event changes all
their lives, and Michael finds himself bearing the burden of grief
and a terrible secret.
Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about
three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan.
School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each
have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time
they return to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a
girlfriend), all of whom must now share the psychological and
physical aftershocks of their service. A work of great dramatic
power, documentary integrity and emotional intensity, Pink Mist
uses everyday yet heightened speech to excavate the human cost of
modern warfare. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers and their
families, as well as ancient texts such as the medieval Welsh poem
Y Gododdin, it is the first extended lyric narrative to emerge from
the devastating conflict in Afghanistan.
'Should be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this
clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be
added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to
John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018 marked
the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. To Provide
All People is the intimate story of the NHS in British society
today, written by novelist, poet and dramatist Owen Sheers.
Depicting 24 hours, with a regional hospital at the centre of the
action, the poem charts an emotional and philosophical map of the
NHS against the personal experiences that lie at its heart; from
patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of
transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins
us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth
and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth. Informed by over
seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated with the
historical narrative of the birth of the NHS Act. To Provide All
People was filmed by Vox Pictures/BBC Wales.
In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and uses their collective memories to create a striking work of poetic power.
This is a portrait not just of what happened, but also of what was lost. What was Aberfan like in 1966? What were the interests of the people, the social life, the sporting obsessions, the bands of the day? What was the deeper history of the place? Why had it become the mining village it was, and what had it been before the discovery of coal under its soil? Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberfan like today?
The Green Hollow is a historical story with a deeply urgent contemporary resonance; a story of what can happen when a community is run by a corporation. It is also a story known along generational rather than geographic borders. Based on the BBC One production, The Green Hollow is a beautifully rendered picture of a time and place - and a life-altering event whose effects are irrevocable.
Welcome to our war. The Two Worlds of Charlie F. is a soldier's
view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in
Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced
hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, the play
explores the consequences of injury, both physical and
psychological, and its effects on others as the soldiers fight to
win their new battle for survival at home. Drawn from the personal
experience of the wounded, injured and sick Service personnel
involved, Owen Sheers's The Two Worlds of Charlie F. premiered at
the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, in January 2012 and toured
nationally that summer. It was revived for an international tour in
2014. 'Powerfully affecting - Gripping. The authenticity of
verbatim drama and the saltiness of barracks-room humour with the
finesse of something more lyrical.' Telegraph 'An evening of rare,
raw power.' Independent A proportion of the writer's royalties from
the sale of this script will be donated to the Marefat High School
in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming
community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone.
Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his
hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a
beautifully imagined and powerfully moving story of love and loss.
This paperback edition has been fully updated to include the 2013
Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions Tour. What does rugby
mean to Wales? Where does the heart of Welsh rugby lie? In Calon,
Owen Sheers takes a personal journey into a sport that defines a
nation. Drawing on interviews and unprecedented access with players
and WRU coaching staff, Calon presents an intimate portrait of a
national team in the very best tradition of literary sports
writing. At the 2011 Rugby World Cup a young Welsh side captained
by the 22-year-old Sam Warburton, captured the imagination of the
rugby-watching world. Exhibiting the grit and brilliance of
generations past, an ill-fated semi-final ended in heartbreak. But
a fledgling squad playing with the familiarity of brothers had sent
out an electrifying message of hope: could this be a third golden
generation of Welsh rugby? It was with this question hanging in the
air that Owen Sheers took up his position as Writer in Residence
for the Welsh Rugby Union. Calon is the document of a year spent at
the heart of Welsh rugby; the inside story of a 6 Nations campaign
that galvanised a nation and ended in Grand Slam success for the
third time in 8 years.
A few years ago, Owen Sheers stumbled upon a dusty book in his
father's study by the extraordinary Arthur Cripps, part-time lyric
poet and full-time unorthodox missionary who served in Rhodesia for
fifty years from 1902. Sheers' discovery prompts a quest into
colonial Africa at the turn of the century, by way of war, a doomed
love affair and friction with the ruling authorities. His personal
journey into the contemporary heart of darkness that is Mugabe's
Zimbabwe finds more than Cripps' legacy - Sheers finds a land
characterised by terror and fear, and blighted by the land reform
policies that Cripps himself anticipated.
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Drew, Moo and Bunny, Too
Owen Sheers; Illustrated by Helen Stephens
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A beautiful, lyrical story of a little boy and his two best
friends, told in enchanting verse by renowned poet Owen Sheers and
magnificently illustrated by award-winning artist Helen Stephens.
Poet Owen Sheers and award-winning illustrator Helen Stephens have
beautifully imagined the story of a little boy named Drew who sets
off on an adventure with his best friends, Bunny and Moo. As the
three fly around the world on a magic rug, powered by the
friendship they share, they run into pirates and trouble on the
dark sea. Can the three best friends find what they need to return
home?
Ideas of separation and divorce--the geographical divides of
borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement
from childhood to adulthood, and the end of relationships--drive
this poetry collection from one of Great Britain's rising young
talents. The collection revolves around the poems "Y Gaer" and "The
Hillfort," the titles themselves suggesting the linguistic divide
in Wales, from poems concerned with childhood, a Welsh landscape,
and family to an outward-looking vision that is both geographic and
historic.
Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's
Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in its own right. Owen
Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of
place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to
mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our
country, and our land. Under the headings of six varieties of
British landscape - London and Cities, Villages and Towns,
Mountains and Moorland, Islands, Woods and Forest, and Coast and
Sea - he has collected poems that evoke qualities of the land, city
and sea and have become part of the way we see these landscapes.
The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC series, while
also supplementing the poems included in the programme with his own
personal favourites.
'"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young,
turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly
beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for
the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who were
killed or wounded in the Battle of Mametz Wood in July 1916. Sheers
revisits that chapter of carnage in a stirring, sprawling promenade
show. He draws on the writings of two survivors in particular. One
is the poet David Jones whose fractured, enervated, modernist
response to his war-time experiences, In Parenthesis, was hailed as
a "work of genius" by TS Eliot. The other key influence is the
writer Llewelyn Wyn Griffith. driven to wondering how the sun
"could shine on this mad cruelty and on the quiet peace of an
upland tarn near Snowdon"... We end up in dark woods and a place of
numb desolation, bombarded by words that pierce the heart and
vignettes that capture the stomach-churning sacrifice. The finest
commemoration of the First World War centenary I've seen to-date,
this deserves a much longer life.' Dominic Cavendish, Daily
Telegraph Mametz by Owen Sheers was premiered by National Theatre
Wales in June 2014. It is one of the set plays on WJEC's A level
Drama specification. This dual edition combines the original
English-language play with a Welsh-language translation by Ceri Wyn
Jones, one of Wales's most eminent poets.
A meditation on war, memory and the nature of time, Mametz,
inspired by the writings of David Jones and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith,
tells the story of the 38th Welsh Division's attack on Mametz Wood
during the Somme offensive of 1916. Set within the context of a
contemporary battlefield tour and moving between the present day,
the 1950s and WWI, the play transports an audience into the
frontline trenches and the intimate fears, hopes and loves of the
young soldiers risked and gave their lives in their attempt to take
the wood. "The finest commemoration of the First World War
centenary I've seen to-date, this deserves a much longer life."
Dominic Cavendish, DAILY TELEGRAPH "an astounding exploration -
melding narrative and poetry - of the Battle of Mametz Wood"
Carolyn Hitt, WESTERN MAIL
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. 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 all
too often devastating effect upon the young lives pulled into its
orbit.
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Pink Mist (MP3 format, CD)
Owen Sheers; Read by Liam Gerrard, Robert K Benson, Andrew Fallaize, Marisa Calin, …
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Pink Mist (Standard format, CD)
Owen Sheers; Read by Liam Gerrard, Robert K Benson, Andrew Fallaize, Marisa Calin, …
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Discovery Miles 3 960
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