Grounded - Softcover

Brant, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573702780 ISBN 13: 9780573702785

Publisher: Concord Theatricals, 2014

Synopsis

From the award-winning playwright of Elephant's Graveyard George Brant comes the story of an ace fighter pilot who's 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 to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world a

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About the Author

George Brant’s plays include Elephant’s Graveyard, Grounded, The Mourners’ Bench, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Grizzly Mama, Any Other Name, Defiant, Dark Room, Miracle: A Tragedy, Good on Paper, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, One Hand Clapping, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime. A Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, his work has been produced internationally by such companies as Trinity Repertory Company, City Theatre, Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, Unicorn Theatre, Borderlands Theater, SF Playhouse, among others. His scripts have been awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, an Austin Critic’s Circle Best New Play Award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2012.

Review

"Brant’s dialogue is bright and textured. Snappy storytelling is punctured by dark edges, mess-hall humour and burst of lyrics beauty." Financial Times

"Grounded is a riveting, award-winning monologue. George Brant’s script is punchy and poetic, subtly raising questions about 21st-century heroines " Independent on Sunday

"Grounded is a powerful, hallucinogenic experience. What makes it imperative viewing is that, rather than being some sci-fi dystopia, everything in Grounded is an urgent, appalling reality: an ethical minefield about which a great deal more noise needs to be made immediately." What's on Stage

"It is a searing piece of writing." Guardian

"Grounded is impossible to take your eyes off, from start to finish [it] is a play that holds you in its palm and grips you tight The script is layered and interesting." A Younger Theatre

"We’re gripped from the first lines of George Brant’s snappy, sparky staccato script. Outstanding..." Evening Standard

"It’s a fine, thoughtful and empathic piece of writing." Time Out London

"What makes Brant’s play exceptional is its driving, white-hot sense of identification with a woman who is not, on the face of it, a sympathetic character." Scotsman

"Grounded is a striking piece of monologue theatre an incredibly evocative play. Brant’s play navigates a problematic terrain with dramatic skill." Exeunt


"Brant’s dialogue is bright and textured. Snappy storytelling is punctured by dark edges, mess-hall humour and burst of lyrics beauty." Financial Times

"Grounded is a riveting, award-winning monologue. George Brant’s script is punchy and poetic, subtly raising questions about 21st-century heroines..." Independent on Sunday

"Grounded is a powerful, hallucinogenic experience. What makes it imperative viewing is that, rather than being some sci-fi dystopia, everything in Grounded is an urgent, appalling reality: an ethical minefield about which a great deal more noise needs to be made immediately." What's on Stage

"It is a searing piece of writing." Guardian

"Grounded is impossible to take your eyes off, from start to finish [it] is a play that holds you in its palm and grips you tight...The script is layered and interesting." A Younger Theatre

"We’re gripped from the first lines of George Brant’s snappy, sparky staccato script. Outstanding..." Evening Standard

"It’s a fine, thoughtful and empathic piece of writing." Time Out London

"What makes Brant’s play exceptional is its driving, white-hot sense of identification with a woman who is not, on the face of it, a sympathetic character." Scotsman

"Grounded is a striking piece of monologue theatre... an incredibly evocative play. Brant’s play navigates a problematic terrain with dramatic skill." Exeunt

Edition details

• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0573702780
• ISBN 13: 9780573702785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66