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 & 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 & physical aftershocks of their service. A work of great dramatic power documentary integrity & emotional intensity Pink Mist uses everyday yet heightened speech to excavate the human cost of modern warfare. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers & 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.