The College of Arts and Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater announces the second show of the Theatre/Dance season with “Grounded” by George Brant. Directed by Bruce Cohen, this production will run in Hicklin Studio Theatre from November 29- December 2 at 7:30 p.m. and December 3-4 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale for the performances and can be purchased online at tickets.uww.edu or by calling (262) 472-2222. The Hicklin Studio Theatre is located in the Greenhill Center of the Arts at 950 W. Main St., Whitewater, WI 53190.
An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away. Warning, this play contains adult language and themes.
The Pilot will be played by Nadia Wolowik. Nadia is thrilled to be in her second show here at UW-Whitewater and her first one-woman show! This show brought so many new challenges and ways to learn, and she is so thankful for the opportunity. She would specifically like to thank Bruce Cohen for his belief in her ability to do this show justice and his unending advice and support. She hopes you come and enjoy the show!
George Brant has many other works such as Marie and Rosetta, Into the Breeches!, Elephant’s Graveyard, The Prince of Providence, Tender Age, The Land of Oz, Dark Room, Grizzly Mama, Good on Paper, The Mourners’ Bench, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Any Other Name, Defiant, Miracle: A Tragedy, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, All Talk, One Hand Clapping, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime. His scripts have received awards like the Lucille Lortel Award, an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, a Scotsman Fringe First Award, an Off-West End Theatre Award for Best Production, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, a Theatre Netto Festival Prize, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center and three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards.
Join Ashley Dimmig, Director of the Crossman Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, on Dec. 1. for a free talk prior to the performance. The talk will take place at 6 p.m. in the Barnett Theatre, and Dimmig will discuss contemporary art made in the Islamic world, or by artists whose heritage is linked to Muslim-majority cultures that responds to the violence and loss resulting from war. Whether facing the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan or the destruction wrought by Al-Qaeda, the fatal drone strikes in Pakistan or the annihilation of cultural heritage treasures by Daesh (ISIS), people have wielded the power of art to combat and process the death, violence, and destruction plaguing their countries in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Ashley Dimmig is the Crossman Gallery Director at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and teaches in the Department of Art and Design. After completing her PhD in the History of Art at the University of Michigan (2019), she served as interim curator of Islamic Art as a postdoctoral fellow at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Her art historical fields of specialization include the art and architecture of the Islamic world, particularly Turkish and Persian spheres during the early modern and modern periods. With a fine arts background in fiber arts and weaving, Dimmig is especially interested in textiles across the Islamic world. She has published numerous scholarly articles in various venues and her research has been supported by nationally and internationally competitive awards, including from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
“Grounded” will run in Hicklin Studio Theatre November 29- December 2 at 7:30 p.m. and December 3-4 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale for the performances and can be purchased online at tickets.uww.edu or by calling (262) 472-2222. The Hicklin Studio Theatre and the Barnett Theatre are located in the Greenhill Center of the Arts at 950 W. Main St., Whitewater, WI 53190.
