Deafinitely Theatre to Stage Bilingual GROUNDED at Park Theatre

Deafinitely Theatre is delighted to announce the cast for their production of George Brant's Grounded at Park Theatre (PARK90) 27th October - 21st November, directed by Paula Garfield. Originally a one-woman show, Deafinitely Theatre's production will use two actors to tell the story of Grounded bilingually, combining British Sign Language, visual storytelling, creative captioning and the spoken word on stage. Nadia Nadarajah will play The Pilot and Charmaine Wombwell will be the Voice of the Pilot. Press Night Wednesday 28th October, 7pm.

Grounded tells the story of how 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.

Deafinitely Theatre are the leading professional deaf-led theatre company in the UK that works bilingually in British Sign Language and spoken English, and produces work that caters to audiences of all ages.

"Definitely, I'd say, theatre for everyone." Lucy Howard, The Guardian (on Deafinitely Theatre's Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare's Globe)

Nadia Nadarajah recently appeared in Sue MacLaine's Can I start again please at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sarah Blanc's Windibops by Moxie Brawl and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Deafinitely Theatre at Shakespeare's Globe.

Charmaine Wombwell's solo show Scarlet Shambles: It used to be Me was at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer. Earlier this year she appeared in Birdphobia with Vertebra Theatre at The Space Theatre.

Director Paula Garfield is the Artistic Director of Deafinitely Theatre. For Deafinitely Theatre she has directed Two Chairs, Motherland, Children of a Greater God, Playing God, Double Sentence and Gold Dust. She has also devised and directed The Boy and the Statue for Deafinitely Theatre at the Tricycle Theatre and London School's Tour. In 2012, as part of Deafinitely's 10th Anniversary, Paula directed Love's Labour's Lost as part of the Globe to Globe festival at Shakespeare's Globe followed by Tanika's Journey at Southwark Playhouse. Most recently, Paula directed Deafinitely Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014 and the children's production Something Else, which toured nationally this year. Set & Costume Designer Paul Burgess; Lighting Designer Jack Knowles; Sound Designer: Chris Bartholomew.

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