A unique collaboration between The Theater Institute at Sage, Albany area Women Against War, The Chapel and Cultural Center at RPI, and The College of St. Rose Theater brings what critics have called a" hallucinogenic" " engrossing" piece of theater to the Capital Region for its regional premiere.<div>GROUNDED follows the trajectory of a female fighter pilot whose pregnancy forces her to join the new drone pilot Air Force.</div><div>Directed by Leigh Strimbeck, GROUNDED has been mounted as a senior project at The Theater Institute and will be on area stages over the next couple of weeks as indicated below.</div><div><br></div><div>All performances are free and open to the public.</div><div>For more information contact Maureen Baillargeon Aumand at <a href="tel:869-6674">869-6674</a> or <a href="tel:380-4254">380-4254</a>.</div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><div>GROUNDED </div><div>by George Brant</div><div>Directed by: Leigh Strimbeck</div><div>Produced by: WOMEN AGAINST WAR</div><div>Performed by: Katelyn Burrello</div><div>Samuel French, Inc., publisher</div><div>Running time: 75 minutes</div><div>All performances will be free and open to the public</div><div>Facilitated discussion will follow each performance</div><div>.....................,</div><div>Grounded has won:</div><div>The Smith Prize for Political Theatre</div><div>Fringe First Award - Edinburg Fringe Festival </div><div>Off-West End Theatre Award for Best Production of 2013</div><div>Short-listed for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award</div><div>**Named a Top 10 London Play of 2013 by both The Guardian and the London Evening Standard**</div><div>“Grounded is a heartbreaking, beautiful, necessary and perfectly-structured solo drama … an essential story for our times.” – The Scotsman</div><div>"A searing piece of writing...gripping...a must-see." - The Guardian</div><div>“Five Stars. Outstanding.” – The London Standard</div><div>“Gripping…presents a convincing portrait” – The New York Times</div><div>“Critic’s Pick. A scorching sharp-eyed, timely script…lets no one off easy…clap all you want at the end of the play—and you’ll want to clap a lot—but the game stays with you” – Time Out New York</div><div>"As close to perfection as is possible to imagine...Grounded is a powerful, hallucinogenic experience." - What's On Stage</div><div>“Thought provoking, thoroughly engrossing…pulses with the rhythms of an epic war poem” - TheatreMania</div><div>.................,,,,</div><div>George Brant’s plays include Grounded, Elephant’s Graveyard, The Mourners’ Bench, Any Other Name, Salvage, Grizzly Mama, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, and Dark Room. A Core Writer at the Playwright’s Center, his scripts have been produced internationally by Trinity Repertory Company, the Studio Theatre, City Theatre, the Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, and the Traverse Theatre, among others. He has received a Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award, the Smith Prize, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, two OAC Individual Excellence Awards, and the Keene Prize for Literature. He has been awarded writing fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the McCarter Theatre Center, Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Resident Artist’s Program, and the Michener Center for Writers. He is published by Samuel French, Oberon Books and Smith & Kraus.</div><div>Website:<a href="http://georgebrant.net" target="_blank">georgebrant.net</a></div><div>Twitter: georgebrant3</div><div>........................</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://54">October 30, 2014</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://55">7:00 PM</a></div><div>The Chapel&Cultural Center at Rensselaer</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://56/0">2125 Burdett Avenue</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://56/0">Troy, NY</a></div><div><a href="tel:274-7793">274-7793</a></div><div><a href="http://www.chapelandculturalcenter.org" target="_blank">www.chapelandculturalcenter.org</a></div><div>....</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://57">November 13, 2014</a></div><div>The Campus Theater </div><div>at The College of St. Rose</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://58">7:00</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://59">November 13, 2014</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://60">996A Madison Avenue</a>( behind 1000 Madison)</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://61/0">Albany, NY 12203</a></div><div><a href="tel:454-5111">454-5111</a></div><div><a href="http://www.strose.edu" target="_blank">www.strose.edu</a></div><div>...</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://62">November 11, 2014</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://63">7:00</a></div><div>The Arts Center of the Capital Region</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://64/0">265 River Street</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://64/0">Troy, NY</a></div><div><a href="tel:273-0552">273-0552</a></div><div><a href="http://www.artscenteronline.org" target="_blank">www.artscenteronline.org</a></div><div>.....</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://65">November 15, 2014</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://66">7:00 PM</a></div><div>Old Chatham Quaker Meeting</div><div>Meetinghouse</div><div>539 County Route 13</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://67/0">Old Chatham, NY 12136</a></div><div><a href="tel:794-0259">794-0259</a></div><div><a href="http://www.oldchathamquakers.org" target="_blank">www.oldchathamquakers.org</a></div><div>.....</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://68">November 19, 2014</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://69">7:30 P.M.</a></div><div>Academy of the Holy Names Upper School</div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://70/0">1074 New Scotland Rd.</a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://70/0">Albany, NY</a> </div><div><a href="tel:283-5353">283-5353</a></div><div><a href="http://www.womenagainstwar.org/wordpress" target="_blank">www.womenagainstwar.org/wordpress</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br></div><br><br></div>
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