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Grounded

  • George Brant
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573702785

**Named a Top 10 London Play of 2013 by both The Guardian and the London Evening Standard**

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set, Opportunity for Spectacle
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • The Smith Prize for Political Theatre
    Fringe First Award - Edinburgh Fringe Festival
    Off-West End Theatre Award for Best Production of 2013
    Short-Listed for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award
From the award-winning playwright of Elephant's Graveyard, George Brant, comes the story of an ace fighter pilot whose career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy.

Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin the blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.
REVIEWS:

"Grounded is a heartbreaking, beautiful, necessary and perfectly-structured solo drama... an essential story for our times."

The Scotsman

"A searing piece of writing... gripping... a must-see."

The Guardian

"Five Stars. Outstanding."

The London Standard

"Gripping... presents a convincing portrait."

The New York Times

"Critic's Pick. A scorching sharp-eyed, timely script... lets no one off easy... clap all you want at the end of the play -- and you'll want to clap a lot -- but the game stays with you."

Time Out New York

"As close to perfection as it possible to imagine... Grounded is a powerful, hallucinogenic experience."

What's On Stage

"Thought provoking, thoroughly engrossing... pulses with the rhythms of an epic war poem."

TheatreMania

Premiere Production:

Grounded was first produced in a rolling world premiere by SF Playhouse (California), Boderlands Theatre (Arizona), and Unicorn Theatre (Missouri) as part of the National New Play Network's Continued Life Program.

The UK premiere of Grounded was produced by the Gate Theatre of London at the Traverse Theatre in Soctland in August of 2013, under the direction of Christopher Haydon.

New York premiere of Grounded was produced by Page 73 Productions (Liz Jones and Asher Richelli, Executive Directors; Michael Walkup, Associate Director)

Characters

  • Casting: 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Non-Traditional casting, Flexible casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

PILOT - a former ace fighter pilot, she has been reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas.

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From the award-winning playwright of Elephant's Graveyard, George Brant, comes the story of an ace fighter pilot whose career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy.

Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin the blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

$24.95

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