Producing
Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside
and American Blues Theater,
Chicago’s second oldest Equity ensemble, are proud to announce the Saturday, June 21 performance of Grounded,
by George Brant and directed by Lisa Portes, at the Greenhouse Theater Center,
2257 N. Lincoln Ave. is a benefit performance for Children of War Foundation.
Proceeds from the performance will go directly to surgery and medical treatment
for Shah Bibi Tarakhail, an Afghan Child
Affected by War. The running time is approximately 80 minutes. Grounded
runs through July 13. The performance schedule is Thursdays
– Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $19 - $49 and are
available at 773.404.7336 or americanbluestheater.com.
A hot-rod F16 fighter pilot’s (Gwendolyn
Whiteside) unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Repurposed to
flying remote-controlled drones in Afghanistan 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. Grounded flies from the heights of
lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting assumptions about
war, family, technology and the power of storytelling.
