Photo Flash: Forward Flux Productions' Sci-Fi Thriller PILGRIMS

Forward Flux's production of PILGRIMS by Claire Kiechel is now playing, bringing sci-fi thrills and chills at West of Lenin, showing until May 19th. This play was workshopped in our Studio for four weeks last year, and we are excited to remount it as a full production for its West Coast premiere. Playwright Claire Kiechel has also written SOME DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH and NORWAY, and she is a writer on the upcoming second season of Netflix's "The OA." PILGRIMS is directed by Forward Flux Creative Director Emily Penick, who directed the Studio workshop last year. Penick also designed the set.

PILGRIMS is a sci-fi thriller set aboard a spaceship. In the play, a soldier, a girl, and a robot are quarantined while traveling to colonize a newly discovered planet. In the close confines of the ship cabin, the soldier and the girl are forced to examine their past traumas, and their roles in a dying society. It was included on the Kilroy List, 2016 (a list of the best new plays by female and trans playwrights from around the nation). The cast features Chris Shea and Meghan Dolbey as the Soldier and the Girl, and Alaji Marie returns as Jasmine the Robot.

The creative team includes Natalie H. Berg (Stage Manager), Andy Buffelen (Production Management), Nova Dobrev (Costumes), Justin and Annie Duffiance (Technical Director), Wesley Frugé (Producer), Lily McLeod (Lighting), Ryan Scott (Sound), and Elizabeth Wu (Assistant Director).

Tickets range from $30-$45 with subsidized options being offered starting at just $10. They are available in advance at forwardflux.com.

Content warning: sexual violence, nudity, language.

Run time: 90mins with no intermission

Photos by Joe Moore

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