Grounded: Play Analysis

On March 17, 2016 at eight o'clock pm I attended the play at the Wells Theatre put on by The Virginia Stage Company entitled Grounded. The play writer of this one women show wrote exactly twenty-one plays in his lifetime. Some which include, Grounded of course, Elephant's Graveyard, All Talk, 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 just to name a few. His plays have been awarded numerous awards such as the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, Austin Critic's Circle Best New Play Award and three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Also, his plays have been produced in many theaters and places all over for example, Disney Channel, Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, Studio Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, and also the famous Wells Theatre where Grounded was last produced by a director by the name of Laley Lippard. Like George, Laley is no stranger to this theatre business, she has directed numerous plays such as The Cherry Orchard and Macbeth just to name a few. She has put on productions at everywhere …show more content…
Laley Lippard's production of Grounded captured all the misery one goes through when losing a loved one as well as the desire to be something great, someone whose name will forever go down in history somewhere. The play Grounded was about a women who made a name for herself that would go down in history, until she came upon an unexpected pregnancy, which put everything that she had worked so hard for on the back burner. Following the birth of her daughter she went back for her position all but to find out that she had been demoted to drone screen work. The boundary between her drone screen and her domestic life begin to merge unexpectedly which led to her having to make a serious decision… be loyal to her position or save her