Grounded

Thu 31 Jul 2014

My pulse quickens. It is not a fair fight, but it quickens. She’s 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. Struggling through 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, she hunts terrorists by day and is a wife and mother by night. Grounded is a gripping and compulsive new play that flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting our assumptions about war, family and what it is to be a woman.

Best Production and Best Design, OffWestEnd Awards. Fringe First winner 2013.

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Rachel Blackman sitting on the floor behind a red plastic chair, with her legs on either side of the chair and her head through the hole in the chair's back. There's a small electric keyboard on the chair and a pot plant next to it

Grounded

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