Sound familiar?
That has been teacher Anna Botsford’s experience as she has tried to motivate high-schoolers in virtual Sturgis Public Charter School West theater classes, noting “A year ago, I jumped into online teaching and I had no idea what I was doing.”
This week, for the first time in two years, Botsford returns to familiar ground: a stage. But that virtual life still surrounds her.
In “Grounded,” a one-woman show at Cotuit Center for the Arts, Botsford reprises the role of an Air Force pilot shackled to a screen of her own, though not for pandemic reasons. After giving birth, she’s reassigned from the skies to a squat trailer in Las Vegas, where she bombs Middle Eastern targets long-distance as a drone operator.