George Brant’s Grounded is an aggressive and
provocative monologue. While you could almost call it a poem in many respects, or
perhaps a poetic monologue, what you notice first is its language – its command
of it, as much as the voice it is spoken by (or written for); and from the
first moments, you are pushed back in your seat by the G-force of this play as
it hurtles through the sky of the Seymour
Centre’s Reginald theatre over the course of eighty tense minutes.
First produced in
2013, and presented here by Melbourne-based company Red Stitch Actors Theatre, this production of Grounded is
riveting and mesmerising. While essentially the story of a fighter pilot in the
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