MAY 16 – 20 WEST OF LENIN, FREMONT

Synopsis

On a ship to colonize a newly discovered planet, a soldier and a teenage girl find themselves quarantined together in a cabin and are forced to explore their own traumatic pasts and roles in a dying society.

Playwright

Claire Kiechel’s plays include Pilgrims (upcoming world premiere production at The Gift Theatre, The Lark’s Playwrights’ Week 2016, and The Kilroys’ The List 2016); Lulu Is Hungry with composer Avi Amon at Ars Nova’s ANT Fest; and Some Dark Places of the Earth at The New School for Drama. She is a 2016 recipient of South Coast Repertory’s Elizabeth George Emerging Writers Commission and a recipient of the 2017 Humana Festival Commission for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Professional Training Company.

Schedule

MAY 2017

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
8pm 8pm
ASL
8pm 8pm 8pm

Cast

Rachel Guyer-Mafune

as Girl

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Ian Bond

as Soldier

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Alaji Marie

as Jasmine

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Creative

Emily Penick

Director

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Haley Bates

Asst. Director

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Andy Buffelen

Prod. Stage Mgr.

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Zanna Paulson

Light Design

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Erin Bednarz

Sound Design

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Jordan Gerow

Tech Director

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Presented By

Studio 45

NEW FOR 2017, Forward Flux Productions is proud to introduce the Studio 45 workshop series. Studio 45 gives a creative team 4 weeks to workshop a brand new play, with 5 public performances. In addition, audiences will have the opportunity to attend select open rehearsals for an insiders’ look at bringing a new play to life. The public performances will have basic design elements (set / lights / costumes), but the focus is on acting craft and storytelling. After each workshop performance, there will be an optional 20min conversation between the audience and the creative team to gather feedback about the play.

For our inaugural Studio 45 production, we are presenting Pilgrims, by Claire Kiechel. Claire will be flying to Seattle to join us in person for a portion of the rehearsals and for the final performance on May 20th. We will be collaborating with her closely throughout the Studio 45 process. Pilgrims was on the Kilroy List in 2016. The play will be rehearsed and performed in the Studio space at West of Lenin (upstairs).