Grounded at Studio Theatre

Grounded

Studio Theatre
1501 14th St. NW Washington

When a hot-shot fighter pilot’s unexpected pregnancy grounds her, she’s reassigned to fly drones in Afghanistan from a trailer outside Vegas. A sold-out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, this gripping solo show explores the screened in, greyed-out, hyped-up world of remote warfare in an acclaimed production from London’s Gate Theatre.

Thru - Jun 29, 2014

Wednesdays: 8:00pm

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Price: $39 - $59

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 1hrs, 10mins

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...The one-woman show, starring Lucy Ellinson as the F-16 pilot grounded because of a pregnancy, takes the audience into the heart of the PTSD epidemic currently sweeping through the modern US air force."

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- Robert Michael Oliver

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...In George Brant's provocative solo drama Grounded, performed by the remarkable Ellen DeGeneres lookalike Lucy Ellinson, a fighter pilot returns from maternity leave to find herself reassigned to "the Chair Force," remote-flying a Reaper drone in Afghan airspace from an air-conditioned trailer in Nevada. Introduced in 2007, these aircraft have a stamina their human operators can't match, staying airborne for 40 hours at a stretch. Their pilots work in 12-hour shifts from 12 time zones away."

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- Chris Klimek

Washingtonian - Recommended

"...In George Brant’s fast-paced, gripping show, which takes place entirely inside that glowing cube (designed by Oliver Townsend), the Pilot is deployed in Afghanistan, blissfully spending her days flying fighter jets and her evenings palling around with the men from her unit. Until one night she meets a man at a bar and, impressed by his lack of intimidation at her forceful personality, she takes him home, and eventually winds up pregnant. This isn’t some tragic tale of a one-night stand, though—when she’s grounded from flying and shows up at her lover’s door, he promptly proposes, and they settle into a happy family life with their daughter. Happy, that is, until the Pilot is permanently reassigned to the “Chair Force,” relegated to piloting drones from a trailer in a Las Vegas desert."

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- Tanya Pai

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Now through the end of June, Studio Theatre concludes its “New British Invasion” series by presenting the Gate Theatre of London’’s acclaimed production of Grounded. The winner of the first prize of last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe, Grounded shows the making and unraveling of an American drone pilot in a tense one-woman psychodrama.

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- J. Robert Williams

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