Blue Cow Theatre
Inc
Directed by
Annette Downs, starring Jane Longhurst
Review by Anica
Boulanger-Mashberg
Technology may
have changed the methods of war yet perhaps not, Brant suggests, the human experience
of it.
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| Image from Blue Cow Theatre Inc Website |
‘Grounded’ after
briefly favouring love and family over her military career, the Pilot (Jane
Longhurst) returns to work where instead of guiding her craft in the great
‘blue’ of which she still dreams, she finds herself dropping her daughter at
daycare and reluctantly driving across the desert to the strange daily mundanity
that is war at a distance. Now a drone pilot, she fights and kills remotely,
but she suffers and struggles here and now. Her actions might be distant but
the trauma of them is very present.
