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by George Brant Singapore Theatre Company KC Arts Centre, Singapore The Singapore Theatre Company kicks off its 2024 season with a series of three monologues. First up, we have Grounded by George Brant, a blistering war drama which premiered at the Edinburgh festival a decade ago and has enjoyed warm reviews since. Directed by Renee Yeong and performed by Oon Shu An, it centres around a female US fighter pilot who gets grounded after an unexpected pregnancy and is relegated from cruising the brilliant blue skies to the "chair force", operating a military drone remotely from a trailer in the desert.  Brant's play is unique in depicting the realities of modern drone warfare and the toll it takes on soldiers. Does a drone pilot's safety and lack of proximity to the enemy make the war they wage any less real? In the case of our protagonist, she finds herself unable to reconcile her alpha female past life with her current situation, serving out twelve-hour shifts in a win

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