Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Ancestors explores the history of communities and their relationships with the landscape around them. It features Warham in Norfolk, Linsey in Suffolk and Alphamstone in Essex in its journey around the UK and beyond. Over the summer, Ed returned to Glastonbury for a second year to light the San Remo stage, before heading to Opera Holland Park to collaborate on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He lit A&E, a new opera from duo Muelas+Ward, which played at London’s Arcola Theatre for their summer festival. Even though people spend an inordinate amount of time looking at our phones or other forms of screens at the moment, one of the things that we have learnt in the past few years is just how much we as a species are dependent on nature. In one form or other, it feeds, clothes and shelters us. Everything is utterly interlinked too, so as we change one thing, we inadvertently affect numerous other things.

The character description is instructive. It’s startlingly precise, specifying her 1.5 mile run-time (13 minutes, 56 seconds or less) and the number of press-ups (50) and push-ups (27) she should complete in a minute. Brant remembers the actor who played the pilot, Lucy Ellinson, apologising. She could only do so many press ups. Brant says he wrote the play “in a bit of a fever” in a rented room in Baltimore, “staring across a grey sky at a prison across the highway”. His pilot talks of being “asleep at the screen”. Brant knows the feeling. “I just sat down and went for it. A lot came in that I wasn’t expecting.” There was then a year of redrafting, “honing and refining the play down to its most active state”.Claire is the Clinical Director of CHEW Initiatives, helping parents and professionals understand and know what to do to best help the children they are worried about. For all of its creativity, however, Grounded doesn't do much to avoid the familiar trappings of its genre either, occasionally falling into the humdrum of the survival-crafting grind as you invest hours into gathering up heaps of resources to build your shelter or simply keep your hunger and thirst at bay. These gameplay loops are popular for a reason, of course, and some of you will happily cycle through them for all their merit. For those who aren't as taken by such genre staples, it's worth emphasising that Grounded merely builds upon, rather than subverts or transcends, the prosaic rhythms of the survival-crafting template.

Emma Howlett is a director and writer based in London. She has staged largescale revivals at major regional venues in the UK such as Lucy Prebble’s ‘Enron’ at the Oxford Playhouse, and Michael Frayn’s ‘Copenhagen’ at Theatre Royal Bath, and has assisted distinguished British directors such as Polly Findlay and Stephen Unwin. Grounded is a first and third-person cooperative survival game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios. It was first revealed at X019 in London and entered early access on July 28th, 2020. It was released for Xbox and PC on September 27, 2022.Day-to-day I enjoy small adventures close to home and can be found biking, swimming, running and kayaking in the beautiful UK uplands with The Little Blue Camper Van. Lucy Ellinson in Grounded at the Traverse in 2013, the first year the play was performed. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Dr Canton, whose previous book The Oak Papers was featured as Book of the Week by BBC Radio 4, explained: “A sacred space is one where an atmosphere is felt, where for some at any rate, there is an emotional charge to simply being in that environment. In a 2015 production of Grounded at the Park theatre, north London, the role of the Pilot was shared by BSL signer Nadia Nadarajah and Charmaine Wombwell. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianThere are a few little issues. The map's a little useless – I have the directional sense of a crumpled napkin, and thus could've really done with a handy little radar or mini-map on the HUD as I couldn't always make out waypoint icons in amongst the busyness of the game's striking environments – and it's oh-so-easy to get snared on the terrain around you. This is frustrating enough when you're exploring, but maddeningly unfair when you're trying to outrun an angry predator. Interactive activities and critical thinking questions in every chapter so you can put your knowledge into practice Whether playing alone or with up to three other friends online, the urge to explore, conquer, and invest yourself into the Grounded ecosystem remains ever compelling"