NEW YORK—“Grounded,” by George Brant and starring Anne Hathaway in a superlative performance, looks at the changing face of war and how those changes affect those who fight it. This powerful drama about technology versus the human factor is now at The Public Theater.
Hathaway plays a nameless fighter pilot who loves being in “the blue.” To her, there’s nothing like flying into combat armed with a huge payload of missiles and bombs, letting them loose on her assigned target and then speeding away. The feeling she feels is akin to an avenging god—it’s an illusion to be sure, but a powerful one.
Pilot (Anne Hathaway) begins her journey flying missions. Joan Marcus
