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Boston Calling: Grounded

Celeste Oliva

28/03/2015

Grounded

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George Brant on turning drones into drama, and confronting the morality of modern warfare

Playwright George Brant turns drones into drama, and confronts the morality of modern warfare.

We talk with the playwright George Brant about his international hit Grounded - a one-woman show about a military fighter pilot sidelined by pregnancy and reassigned to duty as a drone operator. Plus, the story of Kenneth Rowe, a Florida man who in 1953 fled Communist North Korea in a MiG-15 fighter jet. And, why a former US undersecretary of defence and an Afghan doctor are both optimistic about Afghanistan’s future.        

Also, we visit America’s first all-female mosque. And we ponder a challenge for young devout Muslims - if dating is not allowed, how are you to find love?

(Photo: Celeste Oliva starred in The Nora Theatre Company's production of Grounded. Courtesy of A.R. Sinclair Photography)

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