This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper...

T. S. Eliot

Peregrinus

Jerzy Zoń

Serious themes aside, Peregrinus is also just funny and whimsical and something you’ll probably think about the next time you lug a suitcase through the airport.

San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego

The masked faces of Teatr KTO’s performers have become one of the most striking images of the 2016 festival. The acclaimed Polish theatre company takes to the streets of New York as part of FringeAl Fresco, with free,  outdoor performances that explore the meaning of life when it is deprived of spirituality, love and beauty. 

Playbill.com, New York

Zon’s puzzle is just perfect. Additionally, the costume, which makes it challenging to perform, blends into one with the artists as if it was their own skin. This requires great skills, awareness of one’s own body and the partner with whom one has to be in a relationship at every moment. The strength of Peregrinus is the perfect use of each of these elements. It seems as if the giant heads aren’t there at all, as if it’s us dancing in this corporate parade.

Włodzimierz Neubart, chochlik kulturalny

Peregrinus appears to be a black comedy where humour mingles with horror and the grotesque with realism. It is a tale about fears, frustrations and the feeling of loss of a 21st-century human being – delivered in an offbeat, metaphorical way. The show is marked by splendid acting as a group and the director’s original thinking.

Merwan, Jerzy Zoń już nie boi się klaunów, Portalik24.pl

As soon as the performance begins, crowds gather. (…) The ensemble does a tremendous job relating to their audience without language and keeping them visibly absorbed throughout the show. (…) Eryk Makohon’s choreography explores ranges of the real and illusory, exaggerating the mundane motions of daily life to create something entertaining, surprising, and sometimes unsettling.

Alexander Douglas, Theasy.com, New York

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

Part circus act, part dance theatre, all delightfully strange.

Noproscenium, San Diego

I have a soft spot in my heart for PEREGRINUS by Teatr KTO because I was able to see them perform at a theatre festival in Spain. It’s exciting to see them and totally love them and then bring them here.

Teresa Sapien, Broadwayworld, San Diego

Hundreds of people in Aghmashenebeli Avenue in the centre of Tbilisi marvelled at the improvised show by the KTO Theatre from Poland which took place within the framework of the 2016 International Theatre Festival in Tbilisi.

Nino Alavadze, Agenda.de, Tbilisi

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?

In the five seasons since its premiere the production has been presented around the world, attending over 50 festivals, the most important of which are: The Theatre Olympics (Saint Petersburg, 2019), FiraTàrrega (Tarrega, 2018), Chalon dans la rue (Chalon-sur-Saône, 2018), À nous la rue ! (Montreal, 2017), The Sziget Festival (Budapest, 2017), The Sibiu International Theatre Festival (Sibiu, 2017), The Seoul Street Arts Festival (Seoul, 2016), The Tbilisi International Theatre Festival (Tbilisi, 2016), The New York International Fringe (New York, 2016) and The Greenwich & Docklands International Festival (London, 2016).

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

Performers

Karolina Bondaronek, Paulina Lasyk/Agata Łabno, Magdalena Pietnoczka, Grażyna Srebrny-Rosa, Marta Zoń/Monika Daukszo, Sławek Bendykowski/Marcin Dąbrowski, Bartek Cieniawa/Krzysztof Cybulski, Tomasz Łukawski, Paweł Monsiel/Krzysztof Tyszko

Premiere
May 18 & 19, 2015, Milan

Duration
50 minutes

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August 14, 2021
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July 18, 2021
Konin / Poland
Otwórz okno na kulturę
July 17, 2021
Ełk / Poland
Festival Without Curtain
July 6, 2021
Palanga, Klaipėda / Lithuania
XXI International Street Theatre Festival "Šermukšnis"
July 2-4, 2021
Zgorzelec / Poland
Kultura w miasto
June 27, 2021
Bergamo / Italy
33rd Festival Danza Estate
June 19, 2021
Gorzów Wielkopolski / Poland
Dobry Wieczór Gorzów 2021
June 5, 2021
Nowy Sącz / Poland
At the invitation of the Mayor of Nowy Sącz
October 4, 2020
Siedlce / Poland
13th Street Theatre Festival "Under the Sky"
September 7, 2020
Sopot / Poland
Kraków nieodkryty
August 9, 2020
Radom / Poland
Ulica Teatralna
July 23, 2020
Oświęcim / Poland
XVI Alternatywna Scena MDSM w Oświęcimiu
October 11, 2019
Kiev / Ukraine
III Kyiv International Festival of Puppet Theatre “pUPpet”
October 8, 2019
Lviv / Ukraine 
XXX International Theater Festival “Golden Lion”
October 6, 2019
Bytów / Poland
XI Festiwal BytOFFsky Festival
October 4, 2019
Tychy / Poland
V Tyski Festiwal Teatrów Niezależnych ANDROMEDON
September 14, 2019
Zielona Góra / Poland
III Festiwal Teatrów Plenerowych – Monte Verde
September 13, 2019
Tymbark / Poland
August 25, 2019
Poznań / Poland
2nd Festival in the Free Outdoor
August 17, 2019
Świdnik / Poland 
XIII Spotkania Teatrów Ulicznych w Świdniku „Machina Teatralna”
August 16, 2019
Ustka / Poland
Festiwal Mistral
August 4, 2019
Okinawa / Japan
16th ricca ricca festa
July 23-29, 2019
Warsaw / Poland 
Lunapark
July 13, 2019
Saint Petersburg / Russia 
Theatre Olympics
June 15, 2019
Bremen / Germany
25th Internationales Festival der Strassenkünste LA STRADA
June 13, 2019
Cieszyn / Poland 
XXIX Międzynarodowy Festiwal Teatralny „Bez Granic”
June 7, 2019
Milan / Italy
Festival del Silenzio
May 5, 2019
Gwangju / South Korea 
ACC Gwangju Fringe International
September 29, 2018
Ostrołęka / Poland
11th Theater Festival InQbator
September 13, 2018
Tàrrega / Spain
FiraTàrrega
September 7-9, 2018
Olsztyn / Poland
Olsztyński Festiwal Teatrów Ulicznych
August 26, 2018
Ludwigshafen / Germany 
XIX Internationales Strassentheaterfestival
July 27-29, 2018
Chalon-sur-Saône / France 
32nd Chalon dans la rue
July 19-21, 2018
Zamość / Poland 
43. Zamojskie Lato Teatralne
June 24, 2018
Sanok / Poland
June 23, 2018
Łomża / Poland 
31st International Theatre Festival VALISE
June 7, 2018
Białystok / Poland
XXXIII Dni Sztuki Współczesnej
May 26, 2018
Rybnik / Poland
Majówka „Maj, bzy, Rybnik i Ty”
May 1, 2018
Prešov / Slovakia 
52nd Akademyckỳ Prešov
April 26, 2018
Beijing / China 
Chaoyang International Spring Carnival
February 15-22, 2018
Birmingham / UK
Birmingham Hippodrome
September 23-24, 2012
Budapest / Hungary 
25th Sziget Festival
August 13-15, 2017
Żary / Poland
XXVI Międzynarodowe Plenerowe Spotkania ze Sztuką Ż’Art.
August 12, 2017
Montreal / Canada 
À Nous La Rue. Montréal's 375th anniversary
July 25-30, 2017
Lipsk / Germany
July 20, 2017
Carvin / France 
Festival Les Eclectiques
July 15, 2017
Sibiu / Romania
24th Sibiu International Theatre Festival
June 14-15, 2017
Holzminden / Germany 
14th International Festival of Street Theatre Holzminden
June 3-4, 2017
Freiburg / Germany
18th Internationale Kulturborse Freiburg
January 22, 2017
Seoul / South Korea 
14th Seoul Street Arts Festival 2016
September 30, 2016
Tbilisi / Georgia 
9th Tbilisi International Theatre Festival
September 26, 2016
Warsaw / Poland
24th International Street Art Festival
September 11, 2016
Oświęcim / Poland 
VI Międzynarodowe Biennale Plakatu Społeczno - Politycznego
September 2, 2016
New York / USA
The Ninth New York International Fringe Festival
August 6-13, 2016
Świnoujście / Poland 
2nd Grechuta Festival Świnoujście 2016
August 1, 2016
Gliwice / Poland
XIII Międzynarodowy Festiwal Artystów Ulicy „Ulicznicy”
July 31, 2016
London / UK
Greenwich & Docklands International Festival GDIF 2016
June 25, 2016
Kalisz / Poland
XXIII Międzynarodowy festiwal Artystycznych Działań Ulicznych „La Strada”
June 18, 2016 
Vilnius / Lithuania
10th Kūlturos naktis
June 17, 2016
Targoviste / Romania
6th BABEL F.A.S.T.
June 8, 2016
London / UK
Bell Square
June 4, 2016
Tehran / Iran
34th FADJR International Theater Festival
January 27-28, 2016
Krakow / Poland
8th Divine Comedy Festival 
December 10, 2015
Pula / Croatia
21st PUF International Theatre Festival
July 2, 2015
Arkhangelsk / Russia 
21st Arkhangelsk International Street Theatre Festival
June 24-25, 2012
Katowice / Poland 
21st International Performing Arts Festival A PART
June 11, 2012
Haan / Gremany
7th Neanderland BIENNALE
May 29, 2015
Milan / Italy
EXPO
May 18-19, 2015

Karolina Bondaronek

Karolina Bondaronek

Sławek Bendykowski

Sławek Bendykowski

Bartek Cieniawa

Bartek Cieniawa

Krzysztof Cybulski

Krzysztof Cybulski

Monika Daukszo

Monika Daukszo

Marcin Dąbrowski

Marcin Dąbrowski

Paulina Lasyk

Paulina Lasyk

Agata Łabno

Agata Łabno

Paweł Monsiel

Paweł Monsiel

Tomasz Łukawski

Tomasz Łukawski

Grażyna Srebrny-Rosa

Grażyna Srebrny-Rosa

Krzysztof Tyszko

Krzysztof Tyszko

Magdalena Pietnoczka

Magdalena Pietnoczka

Marta Zoń

Marta Zoń

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