Grounded

George Brant’s solo play about a female fighter pilot floored audiences when it played at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013, picking up a Fringe First award and landing a New York season starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Julie Taymor. Now in a National Theatre of Parramatta production directed by Dom Mercer (Little Borders, The Block Universe (Or So It Goes)), the talented Emily Havea (Kill Climate Deniers, Wentworth) plays the pilot who, after years of flying combat missions, is grounded after the birth of her first child and co-opted into the “chair force”, delivering death and destruction to war zones by way of military drones.