<DIV>"Brant’s sharp-eyed, timely script... lets no one off easy; it forces the audience into a greater awareness of our own complicity in America’s drifts. Clap all you want at the end of the play?and you’ll want to clap a lot?but the game stays with you." <I>Time Out New York</I><BR><BR>Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, <I>Grounded</I> tells the story of a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones in the Middle East from an air-conditioned trailer near Vegas, the Pilot struggles through surreal twelve-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night. A tour de force play for one actress, <I>Grounded</I> flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting our assumptions about war, family, and the power of storytelling.<BR><BR>Winner of the 2012 Smith Prize, a 2013 <I>Scotsman</I> Fringe First Prize, and Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2013.<BR><BR>"Brant’s dialogue is bright and textured. Snappy storytelling is punctured by dark edges, mess-hall humour and burst of lyrics beauty." <I>Financial Times</I><BR><BR>"<I>Grounded</I> is a riveting, award-winning monologue. George Brant’s script is punchy and poetic, subtly raising questions about 21st-century heroines?" <I>Independent on Sunday</I><BR><BR>"<I>Grounded</I> is a powerful, hallucinogenic experience. What makes it imperative viewing is that, rather than being some sci-fi dystopia, everything in <I>Grounded</I> is an urgent, appalling reality: an ethical minefield about which a great deal more noise needs to be made immediately." <I>What's on Stage</I><BR><BR>"It is a searing piece of writing." <I>Guardian</I><BR><BR>"<I>Grounded</I> 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." <I>A Younger Theatre</I><BR><BR>"We’re gripped from the first lines of George Brant’s snappy, sparky staccato script. Outstanding..." <I>Evening Standard</I><BR><BR>"It’s a fine, thoughtful and empathic piece of writing." <I>Time Out</I><BR><BR>"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." <I>Scotsman</I><BR><BR>"<I>Grounded</I> is a striking piece of monologue theatre? an incredibly evocative play. Brant’s play navigates a problematic terrain with dramatic skill." <I>Exeunt</I><BR></DIV>