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Gate Theatre and Beckie Darlington present GROUNDED by George Brant
Directed by Christopher Haydon | Performed by Lucy Ellinson | Tour presented by house
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About Gate Theatre The Gate has been inspiring audiences and artists alike for 35 years. The Gate are a home for anarchic spirits, invigorating theatre, and restless creative ambition. They welcome anyone who wants to change the world. In their ever transformable, 70 seat space they confront and debate the biggest questions that face humanity and act as a loudspeaker for unheard voices from across the globe. They are known to springboard the most exceptional new talent into becoming the theatre leaders of tomorrow. No two visits to the Gate are ever the same.
About Christopher Haydon (director) Christopher is the Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre and formerly an Associate Director at the Bush Theatre. Credits include: Grounded, Trojan Women, Purple Heart, The Prophet, Wittenburg (Gate), Twelve Angry Men (Birmingham Rep/West End), Sixty-Six Books, In the Beginning (Bush Theatre/Westminster Abbey); A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (Southbank Centre); Grace, Pressure Drop (On Theatre); Deep Cut (Sherman Cymru/National Tour); Monsters, Notes from Underground (Arcola); A Number (Salisbury Playhouse).
About Lucy Ellinson (performer) Lucy is an actor and theatre maker specialising in devised and experimental performance and international new writing. She is a member of Third Angel, a core artist with Forest Fringe, an associate artist at the Gate, and regularly collaborates with companies and artists such as Northern Stage, Unlimited Theatre, Chris Goode, Wendy Hubbard, Metis Arts, Jane Packman Co, Slung Low, Deaf & Hearing Ensemble, Mapping4d. Theatre credits include: Poprishchin in MadMan by Chris Goode (Theatre Royal Plymouth). The Pilot in Grounded by George Brant, The Chorus in Trojan Women by Caroline Bird and Julian Assange in Tenet (Greyscale) all at The Gate. Money: The Game Show (Unlimited Theatre; The Bush), Oh The Humanity! and other good intentions by Will Eno, directed by Erica Whyman (Northern Stage; Soho Theatre). Lucy also creates participatory performance: #TORYCORE (The Arches Brick Award 2012), Kaidan and One Minute Manifesto (Forest Fringe, Northern Stage BAC) and When I Was Old When I Get Young (RSC Pilot Night, Pulse Festival).
About George Brant (playwright) In addition to Grounded, George’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, the Studio Theatre, Cleveland Play House, 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, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, 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
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Djerassi Resident Artist’s Program, and the Michener Center for Writers. He is published by Samuel French, Oberon Books and Smith & Kraus.
Beckie Darlington Beckie is an independent creative producer working across a range of art forms. She works closely with artists and organisations to conceive, develop and deliver new work, including festivals, touring theatre performances, participatory art works, installations, and one-off live events. She has worked with organisations including transmediale, Natural History Museum, Northern Stage, FutureEverything, Caper, AV Festival and Wunderbar. She is currently working on projects with the Gate Theatre, Andy Field, Deborah Pearson, Christopher Brett Bailey, Mad In China, Gillie Kleiman and Sara Lindström.
A note from the Associate Director Caroline Byrne I first began working with the director, Christopher Haydon, in July 2013. Having worked with Christopher before, he invited me to come on board to work as his associate for this production. Christopher knew I loved formally exciting work, and beautifully crafted language. When I read the play I knew I had to work on it. I was really curious about its appearance on the page – it looked like a poem, so I was really excited about working on it like an epic of sorts. A contemporary epic. During rehearsals I listened to the play. I found linguistic links and ensured that the accuracy of the text was honoured and mined by the exceptional Lucy Ellison. It was always our aim to keep a tight rein on the text and enjoy the carefully crafted and seamless and sublime intelligence that weaves its way throughout the piece. Lucy and Christopher knew so much about drone warfare and weaponised drones, that I was in a very unusual position as an associate director in that they had so much research done before we got into rehearsals. I therefore concentrated on text, character and supporting Lucy’s and Chris’s work. When George Brant came into rehearsals to join us I began to understand his process too. I had once learned that Samuel Beckett was interested in the shape of ideas, in the composition of the text. George is like this too. We spoke many times about how a section might change if one word was changed – like a stack of cards – the domino effect really, on the meaning of the text. During tech I would often sit with George and say some bits of text for him to hear and consider for changes here and there…as all around us the designers were making their own brilliant contributions. So sitting in the dark with George was an insight into his process and his meticulous exactitude. That’s why this play is so engaging – everything is thought through, the words are scared and taut, the ideas have a home on a macro and micro level throughout the text. And then we opened. We all knew. We all knew this play was amazing. That in this room above the pub theatre was necessary.
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Company / (for online & all other communications:) Gate Credit Theatre and Beckie Darlington with: GROUNDED
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Show title Grounded By George Brant Directed by Christopher Haydon Performed by Lucy Ellinson Tour presented by house Long copy “My pulse quickens. (150 words) It is not a fair fight, but it quickens.”
She’s a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She’s pregnant. Her career in the sky is over. Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over the Middle East. She struggles through surreal 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night.
Grounded is a gripping, compulsive new play that flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence. This extraordinary play targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman.
George Brant - Playwright Christopher Haydon - Director Lucy Ellinson - Cast Caroline Byrne - Associate Director Oliver Townsend - Designer Mark Howland - Lighting Designer Tom Gibbons - Sound Designer Benjamin Walden - Video Design Josh Pharo - Associate Lighting Designer Beckie Darlington – Tour Producer
Supported by Arts Council England and Jerwood Charitable Foundation (Jerwood Young Designers Programme).
WINNER - BEST PRODUCTION AND BEST DESIGN, OFFWESTEND AWARDS. FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER 2013.
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Medium copy She’s a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She’s pregnant. Her career in the sky (100 words) is over. Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over the Middle East. She struggles through surreal 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night.
A gripping, compulsive new play that flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, and targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman.
Supported by Arts Council England and Jerwood Charitable Foundation (Jerwood Young Designers Programme). Short copy She’s a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She’s pregnant. Her career in the sky (50 words) is over. Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over the Middle East. She struggles through surreal 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night.
Photo credit Iona Firouzabadi
Age suitability 14+ (strong language, descriptions of scenes of a sexual nature, descriptions of violence)
Running time 65 minutes (no interval)
Online links www.gatetheatre.co.uk (Twitter, Twitter: @GateTheatre hashtag, #Grounded website) facebook.com/gatetheatrenottinghill
Audiences
The Gate’s audiences are made up of a wide range of groups, including regular theatre-goers, those interested in new writing, theatre makers, local colleges and school groups. They have a high percentage of theatre industry professionals and theatre literate audience members.
Target audiences for Grounded
Those interested in:
- new writing and drama - international writing
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- political theatre - contemporary politics - seeing exceptional new artistic talent
Also: - non-theatregoers interested in the politics and ethics of drone warfare - local drama, school or university groups
Using ACE’s Arts Segmentation Report group terms, Grounded target audiences are urban arts eclectic, traditional culture vultures, fun fashion and friends, and mature explorers.
Selling Points:
- drones are a particularly hot topic in the media at the moment in terms of the politics/ethics/personal and social education around drone technology and how this new development in warfare is changing our world
- Gate Theatre and Lucy Ellinson are highly respected names in the industry
- the show has attracted masses of press interest so far and incredible reviews
- listed in a number of end-of-year theatre round-ups, such as the Evening Standard’s top 10 shows, and the Guardian’s fifth best production of 2013
- the impressive video design and state of the art video floor
Engagement
Marketing methods to reach audiences: • Posters and flyers distributed to tour venues • Inclusion in the tour venues’ brochures • Presence on the Gate, house, and tour venues websites • Social media activity • E-newsletters from the Gate, house, and the tour venues mailing lists • PR campaign and press releases sent to regional and national publications
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A Selection of Audience Tweets
@brianswanton Saw #grounded for a 2nd time (rare for me!) @gatetheatre - it's still an incredible hour of pure guts and raw emotion.
@SeatInTheStalls #Grounded @gatetheatre deserves all the rave reviews. Lucy Ellinson is amazing - intense and mesmerising. And I want to go flying now.
@Nazzibea Like a punch in the heart. #Grounded @gatetheatre Loved it.
@JonLFoster Blown away by @Llifo in @gatetheatre #Grounded GO SEE GO SEE GO SEE GO SEE #Drones
@ChescMood you ALL should see @gatetheatre's #grounded @traversetheatre - more than worthy of its FRINGE FIRST - a taught, fast paced & flawless dynamo
@lilyhowkins Had to walk 1hr to get there, but Lucy Ellinson's BLINDING performance in Grounded @gatetheatre was well worth it! #wowsers
@khrthorogood Have slept about three hours since seeing #Grounded @GateTheatre - slightly dumbfounded & absolutely buzzing. Need to see again. Amazing.
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Online Marketing
Messaging
Twitter: @GateTheatre #Grounded facebook.com/gatetheatrenottinghill
Website for campaign: www.gatetheatre.co.uk
• Presence on the Gate, house, and tour venues websites • Social media activity • E-newsletters from the Gate, house, and the tour venues mailing lists • Press releases sent to regional and national publications
Gate Theatre will promote the tour to their 25,000 twitter followers and 2,500 facebook followers. Gate Theatre will include updates in their newsletter which goes out once a week to circa 8,500 followers.
We will also engage in PS swaps with similar London theatre venues.
Video Trailer (with 2014 dates on, but to be updated soon) https://vimeo.com/93610978
Content to Share • Production Images • Video trailer • Press Quotes • Audience/Twitter Quotes • Interviews/blogs: http://www.gatetheatre.co.uk/blog/2014/04/in-the-rehearsal-room-grounded http://dan-hutton.co.uk/2014/05/05/interview-lucy-ellinson/ http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/01/lucy-ellinson-grounded-interview http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/spotlight-on-lucy-ellinson/ http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/christopher-haydon/
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Press Our PR will be managed by Kate Morley - a specialist theatre public relations company working across both the subsidised and commercial sectors.
The PR campaign will come from four main angles: • Lucy Ellinson – in recent years, and especially with Grounded – has risen to be a particularly popular and notable performer, we will utilise this in terms of coverage, both nationally and regionally. • Gate / Christopher Haydon - we will utilise this well-respected brand on tour. • Grounded’s previous success and US transfer to Washington DC – the production is in- demand and admired. With sell-out runs in London and Edinburgh, this will be many people’s first opportunity to see the production that everyone is talking about. • Drone warfare – the politics and ethics explored through Grounded can be debated for think pieces within local media and for radio debate, taking the play off the arts and entertainment pages.
Winner - Best Production & Best Design, OffWestEnd Awards. Fringe First Award Winner 2013.
★★★★★ The Scotsman Evening Standard WhatsOnStage Exeunt The Sunday Telegraph Libby Purves
★★★★ The Guardian Daily Telegraph Financial Times Sunday Times The Independent The Herald The Times Time Out Metro The List
“An essential story for our times.” The Scotsman
“A searing piece of writing, and gets the blistering performance it deserves from Ellinson.” The Guardian
“We’re gripped from the first lines of George Brant’s snappy, sparky staccato script.” Evening Standard
“Haydon precision-guides the show to a stratospheric level of theatrical intensity.” The Telegraph
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“A fine, thoughtful and empathic piece of writing… subtle and troubling.” Time Out
The Scotsman http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/blog/2013/08/06/theatre-reviews- grounded-anna-cadre/
Evening Standard http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/grounded-traverse-- theatre-review-8749388.html 7 Aug 2013
WhatsOnStage http://www.whatsonstage.com/edinburgh-theatre/reviews/08- 2013/grounded-edinburgh-fringe_31506.html 5 Aug 2013
Exeunt http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/grounded/
Sunday Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre- reviews/10799478/Grounded-Gate-Theatre-review-mesmerising.html 30 Apr 2014
Libby Purves http://theatrecat.com/tag/grounded/ 29 Apr 2014
The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/aug/04/grounded-review 4 Aug 2013
Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh- festival/10237887/Edinburgh-Festival-2013-Grounded-Traverse-Theatre-review.html 12 Aug 2013
Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4c0efe06-115a-11e3-8321- 00144feabdc0.html#axzz31hOMA5I8 1 Sept 2013
The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre- dance/reviews/edinburgh-2013-grounded--a-one-woman-answer-to-zero-dark-thirty- 8757045.html 12 Aug 2013
The Herald http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/reviews-quietly-grounded- flight-night-have-i-no-mouth.21795610 7 Aug 2013
Time Out http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/grounded-review 7 Aug 2013 http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/grounded 30 Apr 2014
Metro http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/03/george-brants-grounded-kicks-off-gate-theatres- american-season-3946646/ 3 Sept 2013
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Box Office Information
Grounded is gripping new play that targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman; it is a one-woman show about an F16 fighter pilot who falls pregnant, leaves her beloved job in the sky, and takes up a role flying drones over the middle east.
Running Time: 65 minutes (no interval)
Lighting: strobe effect used.
Age Suitability: 14 + (strong language, descriptions of scenes of a sexual nature, descriptions of violence)
Music: The show has no live music, but does have a brilliant sound design by Tom Gibbons.
Set: A cube – with gauze walls and a video floor - which the performer stays within for the whole performance. 'Occupying a gauze-screened container that's part futuristic installation, part prison cell, Lucy Ellinson gives a compelling lone performance that combines surface toughness with a quivering underlay of vulnerability.' The Telegraph
Number of Performers: One
Find out more about the Gate: http://www.gatetheatre.co.uk/about-us
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Example Press Release
Gate Theatre and Beckie Darlington present GROUNDED By George Brant Gate Theatre’s highly acclaimed show tours the UK, following sell-out runs in London and Edinburgh; a gripping, compulsive new play that flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence. Performed by Lucy Ellinson | Directed by Christopher Haydon | Tour presented by house
UK tour September 2014 to February 2015
“My pulse quickens. It is not a fair fight, but it quickens.” She’s a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She’s pregnant. Her career in the sky is over. Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over the Middle East. She struggles through surreal 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night. This extraordinary play, which tours the UK following huge successes with audiences and critics at the Gate Theatre, targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman. American playwright George Brant’s first collaboration with the Gate was Grounded (2012 Smith Prize Winner, Fringe First Award). His other plays include Elephant’s Graveyard (David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, Austin Critics’ Table Best New Play Award, and Keene Prize for Literature), The Mourners’ Bench, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Grizzly Mama, Any Other Name, Defiant, Dark Room, Miracle: A Tragedy, Good on Paper, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, One Hand Clapping, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime. He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the McCarter Theatre Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Fundacion Valparaiso and the Blue Mountain Center as well as commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4. Lucy Ellinson plays The Pilot. Her previous credits for the Gate include Trojan Women and Tenet (Gate Theatre and Greyscale). Other theatre credits include Money: The Game Show (Unlimited Theatre and Bush Theatre), Oh the Humanity! and other good intentions (Northern Stage and Soho Theatre), A Thousand Shards of Glass (Jane Packman Co), Presumption (Third Angel, UK/international tour), Land Without Words (UK/international tour), 3rd Ring Out (Metis Arts), Where We Meet, Who We Are, Speed death of the Radiant Child and Home-made (Chris Goode), They Only Come at Night and Helium (Slung Low) and Monsters (Arcola). Radio credits include 15 Minutes Live and The Fall. Lucy is an associate artist with Third Angel and Forest Fringe. Her solo work includes One minute manifesto, Kaidan and #TORYCORE.
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Artistic Director Christopher Haydon directs. His work for the Gate includes Purple Heart, The Trojan Women, The Prophet and Wittenberg. He was formerly an Associate Director at the Bush Theatre and with On Theatre. He studied at Cambridge University and trained at Central and the NT Studio. In 2007 he received both the inaugural Chichester Festival Theatre Heller Fellowship and the Channel Four Theatre Director’s Bursary at the Salisbury Playhouse. Other credits include Twelve Angry Men (Garrick Theatre), Sixty Six Books, In The Beginning (Bush Theatre/Westminster Abbey), A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop (Southbank Centre), Grace, Pressure Drop – starring Billy Bragg (On Theatre), Deep Cut (Sherman Cymru/National Tour), Monsters, Notes from Underground (Arcola Theatre), A Number (Salisbury Playhouse), The Stone (RWCMD). He has co-edited three books; Conversations on Religion, Conversations on Truth and Identity and Identification. Haydon has written for The Guardian, The Scotsman, The New Statesman, The FT, The Independent and Prospect Magazine.
Christopher Haydon said, “George Brant's Grounded is one of the finest plays I have ever directed. It's an extraordinary, caustic exploration of one of the most important issues of our time and it packs a multitude of ideas in to a single, brilliantly compelling character. Since opening in Edinburgh last year, it has been hugely exciting to see how thousands of people have connected with it and so I am thrilled at the opportunity to take it on tour and allow it to reach an even wider audience. As a small pub theatre we rarely get the opportunity to share our work as widely as we would like and so this is the perfect way in which to bring the work of the Gate to the rest of the country.” Running Time: 65 mins | Suitable for ages 14+
Company Information Written by George Brant Directed by Christopher Haydon Performed by Lucy Ellinson Associate Director Caroline Byrne Designed by Oliver Townsend Video Design by Benjamin Walden Sound Design by Tom Gibbons Lighting Designer Mark Howland Tour produced by Beckie Darlington Associate Lighting Designer Josh Pharo
Tour presented by house
Supported by Arts Council England, house, and Jerwood Charitable Foundation (Jerwood Young Designers Programme).
Listings September 2014 4, 5, 6 Sept Birmingham Rep
October 2014 7, 8, 9, 10 Oct Warwick Arts Centre 21, 22 Oct Clwyd Theatr Cymru 23, 24, 25 Oct West Yorkshire Playhouse
November 2014 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Nov Manchester Royal Exchange 10 Nov The Capitol, Horsham
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12 Nov The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre, Bordon 13 Nov Folkestone Quarterhouse 16 Nov Canterbury Gulbenkian 18 Nov The Point, Eastleigh 19 Nov Fareham Ashcroft Arts Centre 20 Nov Cranleigh Arts Centre 21 Nov Brighton Dome (Pavilion Theatre) 23 The Place, Bedford 25 Nov Banbury Mill Arts Centre 26 Nov Colchester Arts Centre 29 Nov The North Wall, Oxford
January 2015 21, 22, 23, 24 Jan Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield 28, 29, 30, 31 Jan presented by Bristol Old Vic at Arnolfini
February 2015 Tue 3 Feb Basingstoke, Central Studio Wed 4 Feb Stowe, Roxburgh Theatre Thu 5 Feb Newbury Corn Exchange Sat 7 Feb Lyme Regis, Marine Theatre Wed 11 Feb Norwich Playhouse Thu 12 Feb Harlow Playhouse Wed 18 Feb Cambridge Junction Thu 19 Feb Chipping Norton Theatre
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Grounded Template Mail Out – for audience database of venue
Re: Gate Theatre’s Grounded by George Brant
Gate Theatre’s five star, sell-out hit Grounded arrives for one night only.
She’s a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot. She’s pregnant. Her career in the sky is over. Now, she sits in an air-conditioned trailer in Las Vegas flying remote-controlled drones over the Middle East. She struggles through surreal 12-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night.
Grounded is a gripping, compulsive new play that flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence. This extraordinary play targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman.
Grounded has won three awards since its debut at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe and has continued to wow audiences and critics across the UK.
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Winner of Best Production and Best Design at the Off West End Awards. Fringe First Award Winner 2013.
★★★★★ “An essential story for our times.” The Scotsman
★★★★★ “Nothing short of mesmerising.” Sunday Telegraph
★★★★★“We’re gripped from the first lines of George Brant’s snappy, sparky staccato script.” Evening Standard
★★★★ “A searing piece of writing, and gets the blistering performance it deserves from Ellinson.” The Guardian
★★★★ “Completely absorbing and hard to forget.” Time Out
★★★★ “Haydon precision-guides the show to a stratospheric level of theatrical intensity.” Daily Telegraph
Audience have been saying things like:
@gatetheatre finally caught up with the coruscatingly brilliant 'Grounded'. Like a gradually exploding heat-seeking missile. Don't miss it.
Have slept about three hours since seeing #Grounded @gatetheatre - slightly dumbfounded & absolutely buzzing. Need to see again. Amazing.
Had to walk 1hr to get there, but Lucy Ellinson's BLINDING performance in Grounded @gatetheatre was well worth it! #wowsers
Grounded continues to feel painfully relevant - as the Obama administration continues to wage war remotely against people in Yemen, Pakistan and across the Middle East. The campaign against this new weapon of surveillance and war is still in its infancy and whilst, obviously, our show is not, in itself, going to bring about any huge change in British or US foreign policy, the need to raise awareness of this issue feels ever more urgent.
Gate Theatre are London's award-winning international theatre, renowned for its invigorating work, inventive use of space and the exceptional artists it attracts.
We are delighted to announce that Grounded will visit (INSERT VENUE NAME) on XXX. Early booking recommended to avoid disappointment: (INSERT LINK) or call the Box Office on: (INSERT NO.) TICKETS: (INSERT PRICE) Twitter: @GateTheatre #Grounded
We very much hope to see you there
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Tour Schedule
September 2014 4, 5, 6 Sept Birmingham Rep
October 2014 7, 8, 9, 10 Oct Warwick Arts Centre 21, 22 Oct Clwyd Theatr Cymru 23, 24, 25 Oct West Yorkshire Playhouse
November 2014 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Nov Manchester Royal Exchange 10 Nov The Capitol, Horsham 12 Nov The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre 13 Nov Folkestone Quarterhouse 16 Nov Canterbury Gulbenkian 18 Nov The Point, Eastleigh 19 Nov Fareham Ashcroft Arts Centre 20 Nov Cranleigh Arts Centre 21 Nov Brighton Dome (Pavilion Theatre) 23 The Place, Bedford 25 Nov Banbury Mill Arts Centre 26 Nov Colchester Arts Centre 29 The North Wall, Oxford
January 2015 21, 22, 23, 24 Jan Crucible Studio Theatre 28, 29, 30, 31 Jan presented by Bristol Old Vic at Arnolfini
February 2015 Tue 3 Feb Basingstoke, Central Studio Wed 4 Feb Stowe, Roxburgh Theatre Thu 5 Feb Newbury Corn Exchange Sat 7 Feb Lyme Regis, Marine Theatre Wed 11 Feb Norwich Playhouse Thu 12 Feb Harlow Playhouse Wed 18 Feb Cambridge Junction Thu 19 Feb Chipping Norton Theatre
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