KTO Theatre's PEREGRINUS at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025
Where?
Summerhall, venue 26
When?
10 shows, 7-11 August
The meadows (east side)
2:45 PM
Summerhall (courtyard)
3:45 PM
No text. Free entry.
About the show
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper...
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?
The form allows the show to be presented in three different settings:
(Videos below)
Mobile version
Stationary version (day or night)
Extras
Script, music selection and stage direction
Jerzy Zoń
Stage movement and choreography
Eryk Makohon
Stage set, costume and masks design
Joanna Jaśko-Sroka
Mask concept
Spitfire Company
Masks production
Modelatornia Agnieszka Szarejko
Performers
Karolina Bondaronek, Karolina Daniec-Franczyk, Magdalena Dymsza, Paulina Lasyk, Grażyna Srebrny-Rosa, Marta Zoń, Sławek Bendykowski, Bartek Cieniawa, Tomasz Łukawski, Mieszko Syc
Premiere
May 18 & 19, 2015, Milan
Duration
50 minutes
Reviews
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Peregrinus on tour
Peregrinus is one of the most iconic KTO Theatre shows. Since its premiere in 2015, it has been presented at nearly a hundred festivals in over twenty countries, including:
FETA International Street & Open-Air Theatres Festival, Gdansk / Poland, 2025
Festival „Circo e dintorni”, Milano / Italy, 2025
International Adana Theatre Festival, Adana / Turkey, 2025
SOMMERWERFT – Internationales Theaterfestival am Fluss, Frankfurt/ Germany, 2024
Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Sibiu / Romania, 2024
Taurogi City Festival, Taurogi / Lithuania, 2024
City Of Wings Festival, Ypres / Belgium, 2024
MASKARADA Festival of Living Theatre, Rzeszow / Poland, 2023
Waterbei Straat Theater Festival, Winschoten / Netherlands, 2023
Concentrico Festival , Carpi / Italy, 2023
Open The Door International Festival, Katowice / Poland, 2023
International Festival of Puppet Theatre WEITBLICK, Brunswick / Germany, 2022
International Puppet Theatre Festival KAUNAS PUPPET, Kaunas / Lithuania, 2022
„Stage under Construction” Stenography and Costume Design Festival, Lublin / Poland, 2022
Festival Without Curtain, Elk / Poland, 2021
International Street Theatre Festival „Šermukšnis” / Klaipéda, Lithuania, 2021
Festival Danza Estate, Bergamo / Italy, 2021
Undiscovered Cracow, Sopot / Poland, 2020
WOW Without Walls Festival, San Diego / USA, 2019
Kyiv International Festival of Puppet Theatre „pUPpet”, Kiev / Ukraine, 2019
International Theater Festival „Golden Lion”, Lviv / Ukraine, 2019
Ricca Ricca Festa, Okinawa / Japan, 2019
Theatre Olympics, Saint Petersburg / Russia, 2019
LA STRADA Internationales Festival der Strassenkünste, Bremen / Germany, 2019
Festival del Silenzio, Milan / Italy, 2019
Gwangju Fringe Festival, Gwangju / South Korea, 2018
FiraTàrrega, Tàrrega / Spain, 2018=
Internationales Strassentheaterfestival, Ludwigshafen/ Germany 2018
Chalon dans la rue, Chalon-sur-Saône / France, 2018
Chaoyang International Spring Carnival, Beijing / China, 2018
Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham/ UK, 2017
Sziget Festival , Budapest / Hungary, 2017
À Nous La Rue. Montréal’s 375th anniversary, Montreal / Canada, 2017
Festival Les Eclectiques, Carvin / France, 2017
Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Sibiu / Romania, 2017
Seoul Street Arts Festival, Seoul / South Korea, 2016
Tbilisi International Festival, Tbilisi / Georgia, 2016
New York International Fringe Festival, New York / USA, 2016
Greenwich & Docklands International Festival GDIF, London/ UK, 2016
KŨLTUROS NAKTIS /Vilnius / Lithuania, 2016
BELL SQUARE, London / UK, 2016
FADJR International Theatre Festival, Tehran / Iran, 2016
ULICA Festival, Cracow / Poland, 2015
Divine Comedy Festival, Cracow / Polan, 2015
PUF International Theatre Festival, Pula / Croatia, 2015
EXPO, Milan / Italy, 2015
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 48th season of the company’s operation the statistics are considerably different: above 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 above 300 cities in over 40 countries on five continents. It has performed in Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Iran, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Tunisia, the USA, and almost all the countries in Europe.
The worldwide stature of the KTO Theatre has also been reflected in its involvement in numerous international projects. Among the most important ones there were OPERATION OPERA, a show created together with the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, and The Refugees, a theatre installation presented in Leipzig to the audience of 120,000 viewers on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, performances Musette et Polka , Promised Land and Visit in co-production with festivals in France, Croatia and Germany or CANTATA – New Year’s Eve millennium show broadcast by the BBC to over 120 countries.
The KTO Theatre is the organizer of the international ULICA Festival in Krakow (38 editions in the years 1988-2025), as well as the organizer of other Krakow’s artistic projects – the Theatre Nights (18 editions in the years 2007-2025) and the Poetry Nights (14 editions in the years 2011-2025).
Since January 2005 the KTO Theatre has had the status of a municipal theatre in Krakow, and since 2021, thanks to the goodwill and generosity of the City of Krakow and the support from the Regional Operational Programme for the Małopolska Region, has been granted a building and a stage in the heart of the Kraków district of Podgórze.
For 48 years now the KTO Theatre has operated under the leadership of Jerzy Zoń.
