Pilgrims (NHB Modern Plays)

By Elinor Cook

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Sep 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781780018195

Elinor Cook

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). She also wrote an episode of The Secrets for BBC One, directed by Dominic Savage.