Belle Theatre's Peyton McCarthy commands the stage in Grounded as an F16 fighter pilot who is reassigned to fly drones from a windowless trailer in the desert outside Nevada after she becomes pregnant. McCarthy rises to the challenges presented by this ambitious one-woman show.
“Grounded,” a one-woman play written by George Brant, is now an opera that will premiere with the Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center. The opera examines the struggles of a female Air Force F-16 pilot who becomes a drone pilot after being grounded due to pregnancy.