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URL:https://www.cityofliterature.co.nz/whats-on/grounded/
SUMMARY:Grounded
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DESCRIPTION:hrough a unique collaboration with Otago Polytechnic design students, Grounded offers audiences an immersive, digital theatre experience about a fighter pilot’s struggle with motherhood, marriage and being “grounded”. The central character is played by Claire Chitham, a renowned and loved New Zealand actor.
When an unexpected pregnancy grounds an F16 fighter pilot, she is repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones in the Middle East from an air-conditioned trailer in the desert outside Las Vegas.
Instead of soaring through the blue, she is now sitting in the grey – working twelve-hour shifts hunting terrorists on screen by day and being a wife and mother by night. As the pressure to find a high-profile target builds, the boundaries between the desert where she lives and the one she patrols half-a-world away begin to blur.
Winner of a coverted Fringe First award (2013), this is a haunting, extraordinary and topical play about war, family and empathy.
Contains mature language and themes
Written by George Brant
Duration: approximately 80 minutes, no interval.
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