Poland
- Age 8+
- Duration – 50 min
- Location – Performance starts at the entrance of the Kaunas State Puppet Theatre
Script, music selection and stage direction – Jerzy Zoń
Mask concept – Spitfire Company
Masks design – Joanna Jaśko-Sroka
Masks production – Modelatornia Agnieszka Szarejko
Stage set and costume design – Joanna Jaśko-Sroka
Stage movement and choreography – Eryk Makohon
Photo – Adam Mikołajczyk
Performers – Karolina Bondaronek, Paulina Lasyk/Agata Łabno, Grażyna Srebrny-Rosa, Justyna Wójcik, Marta Zoń/Monika Daukszo, Sławek Bendykowski/Marcin Dąbrowski, Bartek Cieniawa/Krzysztof Cybulski, Paweł Monsiel/Krzysztof Tyszko, Michał Orzyłowski
Premiere: May 18 & 19, 2015, Milan
About the performance “Peregrinus”
A wandering theatre show inspired by poetic works of T.S. Eliot depicts a single day in the life of a contemporary everyman. In an appealing visual form, with attractive choreography and grotesque mode of presentation taken with a pinch of salt, it painfully exposes the traps of contemporary world, in which many of us fall unreflectively losing the distinctiveness of our souls. Does the collective possession of the Peregrinuses have an end? In this journey do we fall prey to the dybbuks or do we become them?
“This show is a great opportunity to stop for a moment and reflect on what we are doing with our lives. It’s not good if our world even slightly resembles the world in Peregrinus. Now that we know, we can change it. And will we?”
Lilia Łada, TenPoznan.pl
KTO Theatre
The KTO Theatre was established in 1977. Its first production was The Garden of Delight the first ten performances of which were closed to the general public and presented to no more than several hundred people. In the following year, however, they were attended by the audience of nearly three thousand in Krakow and some other Polish cities.
In the 45th season of the company’s operation the statistics are considerably different: over 80 productions, performed indoors and outdoors in Poland and around the world, have been attended by more than 3,000,000 people. The group has visited over 250 cities in over 40 countries on five continents. It has performed in Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Iran, Mexico, South Korea, Tunisia, the USA, and almost all the countries in Europe.
Since January 2005 the KTO Theatre has had the status of a municipal theatre in Krakow.
For 44 years now the KTO Theatre has operated under the leadership of Jerzy Zoń.
