Have you ever turned the corner on an actor? After years of watching them, maybe on screen — or, in this instance, on stage?
Anne Penner during a rehearsal at the Denver University Black Box Theatre in Denver on Saturday, July 06, 2024. Have you ever turned the corner on an actor? After years of watching them, maybe on screen — or, in this instance, on stage?
And so, on a recent Saturday morning, Penner walked into the black-box rehearsal space on the University of Denver campus. She wore black boots, green khakis, a dark blue T-shirt, her hair pulled back. Director Rick Barbour sat a couple of rows up. There was a single chair, lights. The Pilot’s a good storyteller. She’s on leave from flying missions above Afghanistan, above Iraq, when she meets her future husband, Eric. They have sex, she shares in language that’s a little bluer than that. “He tells me he can feel the sky in me.”
“Grounded” had a lauded off-Broadway production in 2015, directed by Julie Taymor with Anne Hathaway portraying the flyer. A discerner of smart drama, the Boulder Ensemble’s then-artistic director Stephen Weitz mounted the show in 2014 . Mark Ragan, the theater company’s current managing director, saw the very brief run of the Penner-led show in 2021 at DU.
“Anne was going stir crazy, you know, with the COVID limitations — not being able to work and stuff. And I certainly wasn’t a happy camper about it, but she really wanted to work on something,” said Barbour, Penner’s colleague in DU’s Theatre Department. But make no mistake — and this is the subtle power of Brant’s drama — the Pilot is also a killer. While she may not have thought much about that when she was flying missions in the Middle East and Central Asia, it engenders a steep and psychologically complicated plummet when distilled by a screen 18 inches from your visage, a joystick in hand and targets whispered in your ear.
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