Grounded - Couverture souple

Brant, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573702780 ISBN 13 : 9780573702785

Editeur : Samuel French Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

"An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot's career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away"--Page 4 of cover.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2013. Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2013. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Grounded tells the story of a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones in the Middle East from an air conditioned trailer near Vegas, the Pilot struggles through surreal twelve-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night. A tour de force play for one actress, Grounded flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting our assumptions about war, family, and the power of storytelling.

Biographie de l'auteur

George Brant's plays include 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, 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, the Keene Prize for Literature and an OAC Individual Excellence Award. He has been awarded writing fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the McCarter Theatre Center, and the Michener Center for Writers. He is published by Oberon Books, Samuel French and Smith & Kraus.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Samuel French Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573702780
• ISBN 13: 9780573702785
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 66
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible