Gate Theatre Announces Extension For GROUNDED

The Gate Theatre today announces an extension for its critically acclaimed, smash-hit production of George Brant's Grounded which is returning to the Gate following two previous sell-out runs. The production, starring Lucy Ellinson, now runs for an extra week until 25 March.

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 hours shifts far from the battlefield hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night.

Grounded is a gripping, compulsive play that targets our assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman.

George Brant's play Grounded was produced Off-Broadway in New York at The Public Theater, starring Anne Hathaway and a film of the play is currently in creation, also starring Hathaway. 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 work for the Gate Theatre includes The Christians (also Traverse Theatre - Best Supporting Female Actor, Off-West End Awards), Trojan Women and Tenet (Gate Theatre and Greyscale). Other theatre credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC and tour), World Factory (Young Vic), 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. She is an associate artist with Third Angel and Forest Fringe. Her solo work includes One minute manifesto, Kaidan and #TORYCORE.

Christopher Haydon directs. He is the outgoing Artistic Director at the Gate Theatre and formerly an Associate Director at the Bush Theatre. His credits at the Gate include The Convert, Diary of a Madman (also Traverse Theatre), The Iphigenia Quartet, The Christians (also Traverse Theatre, winner: Fringe First), Image of an Unknown Young Woman (winner: Best Production, Off West End Awards), The Edge of Our Bodies, Trojan Women, Purple Heart, The Prophet and Wittenburg. Other theatre credits include 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 Theatre) and A Number (Salisbury Playhouse). His short films include The Taming of the Shrew/Two Gentleman of Verona (Shakespeare's Globe), Devil in the Detail (Royal Court Theatre/Guardian). As a journalist he has written for: The Scotsman, The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman and Prospect Magazine. He is the co-editor of three books: Conversations on Religion, Conversations on Truth (Continuum), and Identity and Identification (Black Dog).

For bookings and more information, visit www.gatetheatre.co.uk.

In person booking and ticket collection is only available on the day of performance from one hour before the performance begins.

The Gate is supported by:

15 Years of Jerwood Young Designers at the Gate

This year, we celebrate 15 years of Jerwood Charitable Foundation supporting the training of young designers at the Gate Theatre providing essential on-the-job training of theatrical designers at the start of their career. This partnership is an essential part of the Gate's 'teaching theatre' mission, acting as the crucial bridge into professional theatre-making for young artists, giving them time, resources and expertise to test, improve, and ultimately showcase their work.

In 2014 the Programme was extended to not only support four breakthrough Designers a year at the Gate, but also four Design Assistants right at the very start of their careers.

By the end of the 2016/17 programme, the Jerwood Young Designers Programme will have supported 84 placements over the course of 15 years.

Our Jerwood Young Designer alumni include Soutra Gilmour, Jon Bausor, Tom Scutt, Chloe Lamford, Oliver Townsend and Fly Davis.

"Time and again the Gate Theatre and Jerwood Charitable Foundation have discovered the most visionary artists of their generation" Christopher Haydon

www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org

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