A play about adventure, betrayal, and man's impulse to conquer the world.
Dan and Will climb mountains. Aged eighteen, they climbed Everest. They became legends.
Rachel isn't interested in being a character in Dan's story. She intends to make her own. But with the thrill of a climb just days away, it's not just principles, but people, in danger.
Elinor Cook's play Pilgrims premiered at HighTide Festival 2016, in a co-production with HighTide, Theatr Clwyd and Vicky Graham Productions, directed by Tamara Harvey.
About the Author :
Elinor Cook won the George Devine Award 2013 for Most Promising Playwright. Her plays include: Pilgrims (HighTide Festival and Yard Theatre, London, 2016); The Rehearsal (LAMDA); Ten Weeks (Paines Plough/Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre, London, 2015); The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World (HighTide Festival, 2014); The Boy Preference (National Theatre Connections); and this is where we got to when you came in (non zero one/Bush Theatre).
Review :
'A gorgeous piece... layered and lyrical... Cook's characters are beautifully drawn... Pilgrims isn't just a protest about the way women get sidelined in stories – that men get to be heroes, and women, their prizes – it dares to suggest there's a reason for that'
'A honeycomb of delicately interlinked scenes that layer back and forth in time'
'A theatrically exciting and free-flowing piece of narrative... an impressively detailed and suggestive example of contemporary new writing'
'A seriously smart new play... a restless piece of writing that keeps chipping away at itself, leaving sharp and glittering edges exposed'
'Deft and witty... an eloquent cry of protest about the marginalisation of women in legend and story as well as life'
'Thoughtful and quietly poetic. Investigating the gender imbalance in the narrative of history, [Pilgrims] constructs and then dismantles a classic love triangle'
