The Gate Theatre

Gate Theatre's multi-award winning smash hit production of Grounded has extended its tour and will now be coming to the Farnham Maltings.

The play explores the morality of drone warfare through one female pilot's struggle. It targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman.

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 was a huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013 and Lyn Gardner placed it in her top 10 plays of 2013. This fascinating play and performance by Lucy Ellinson is not to be missed.