[Capdist-announce] Award winning GROUNDED by George Brant has its area premiere in Troy this week , tour takes it to 5 venue

[maureen aumand]

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.
GROUNDED follows the trajectory of a female fighter pilot whose pregnancy
forces her to join the new drone pilot Air Force.
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.

All performances are free and open to the public.
For more information contact Maureen Baillargeon Aumand at 869-6674 or
380-4254.

GROUNDED
by George Brant
Directed by: Leigh Strimbeck
Produced by: WOMEN AGAINST WAR
Performed by: Katelyn Burrello
Samuel French, Inc., publisher
Running time: 75 minutes
All performances will be free and open to the public
Facilitated discussion will follow each performance
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Grounded has won:
The Smith Prize for Political Theatre
Fringe First Award - Edinburg Fringe Festival
Off-West End Theatre Award for Best Production of 2013
Short-listed for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award
**Named a Top 10 London Play of 2013 by both The Guardian and the London
Evening Standard**
“Grounded is a heartbreaking, beautiful, necessary and perfectly-structured
solo drama … an essential story for our times.” – The Scotsman
"A searing piece of writing...gripping...a must-see." - The Guardian
“Five Stars. Outstanding.” – The London Standard
“Gripping…presents a convincing portrait” – The New York Times
“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
"As close to perfection as is possible to imagine...Grounded is a powerful,
hallucinogenic experience." - What's On Stage
“Thought provoking, thoroughly engrossing…pulses with the rhythms of an
epic war poem” - TheatreMania
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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.
Website:georgebrant.net
Twitter: georgebrant3
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October 30, 2014 <x-apple-data-detectors://54>
7:00 PM <x-apple-data-detectors://55>
The Chapel&Cultural Center at Rensselaer
2125 Burdett Avenue <x-apple-data-detectors://56/0>
Troy, NY <x-apple-data-detectors://56/0>
274-7793
www.chapelandculturalcenter.org
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November 13, 2014 <x-apple-data-detectors://57>
The Campus Theater
at The College of St. Rose
7:00 <x-apple-data-detectors://58>
November 13, 2014 <x-apple-data-detectors://59>
996A Madison Avenue <x-apple-data-detectors://60>( behind 1000 Madison)
Albany, NY 12203 <x-apple-data-detectors://61/0>
454-5111
www.strose.edu
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November 11, 2014 <x-apple-data-detectors://62>
7:00 <x-apple-data-detectors://63>
The Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street <x-apple-data-detectors://64/0>
Troy, NY <x-apple-data-detectors://64/0>
273-0552
www.artscenteronline.org
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November 15, 2014 <x-apple-data-detectors://65>
7:00 PM <x-apple-data-detectors://66>
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting
Meetinghouse
539 County Route 13
Old Chatham, NY 12136 <x-apple-data-detectors://67/0>
794-0259
www.oldchathamquakers.org
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November 19, 2014 <x-apple-data-detectors://68>
7:30 P.M. <x-apple-data-detectors://69>
Academy of the Holy Names Upper School
1074 New Scotland Rd. <x-apple-data-detectors://70/0>
Albany, NY <x-apple-data-detectors://70/0>
283-5353
www.womenagainstwar.org/wordpress
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