REVIEW: Grounded actor delivers weighty performance

The only character in Grounded, Live Five’s season-opening play, is a fighter pilot. Despite her extraordinary experiences, the play is about universal ones. Themes like work-life balance, stress, love and uncertainty are explored to their extremes, but in a way that rings true even if your feet are always firmly on the ground.
The character, played by Kate Herriot, is her job. Her flight suit represents hard work, nerve and sacrifice. It might as well be fused to her skin. So when life, m