FOLLOWING sell-out runs at both the Edinburgh Festival and Gate Theatre, and a run at Studio Theatre in Washington DC, George Brant’s play Grounded will run at The Point, Eastleigh on Tuesday, November 18.
The first tour in the Gate Theatre’s 35-year history, this one-woman show fulfils artistic director Christopher Haydon’s ambition to take the Gate’s work beyond the company’s home base to as wide an audience as possible – enabling people across the UK to see the much talked about award-winning production.
Christopher Haydon said: “George Brant’s Grounded is one of the finest plays I have ever directed. It’s an extraordinary, caustic exploration of one of the most important issues of our time and it packs a multitude of ideas in to a single, brilliantly compelling character.”
Lucy Ellinson plays the sole character – a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She’s pregnant. Her career in the sky is over.
Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over the Middle East.
She struggles through surreal 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night.
This extraordinary play targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman.
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