Even if one entered Olney
Theatre Center’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab without knowing anything about George
Brant’s taut play Grounded, the
visuals already established will tip you off that you will be in for a tense,
bumpy ride. Seated on a black swivel chair,
motionless, is a slender woman in an olive drab flight suit (designed by Ivania
Stack) before a group of imageless TV monitors except for gray wavy lines
across the screens. The audience is eventually
in place, the lights black out for a second, and then pow! #hocoarts
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| Megan Anderson as The Pilot in Grounded. Photo: Clinton B Photography |
The Pilot, the sole identity of the
woman in the flight suit, springs to her feet from her chair and tells Brant’s poignant
story of how we arrived at this point.
Megan Anderson, who recently turned in a terrific performance in Rep
Stage’s The Whale and is a resident
actor at Everyman, delivers the punches like a brawny fighter making use of
rapidly spoken, high-octane soliloquies, often employing combat stances and
macho swagger, and energetically moving about the stage with a purpose in a
tour de force that is as riveting as it is outstanding.
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