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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2026 season. This season is now over.

This is a rectangular image with a sepia background and a black and white large circle in the centre. The circle is a portrait of a woman who is naked from the bust up and is staring at the camera. Her hair is shaped into the horns of a bull.
Adelaide Fringe 2026

PILGRIM

Following the footprints of the elusive bull (in the Zen tradition of the Ten Ox-herding pictures), an accidental pilgrim embarks on a journey to recover her lost faith in love, or perhaps faith itself. As she wanders deeper into the birthplace of the Western foundational stories, she is guided by an unseen hand back to her own spiritual origin, to retrieve something she'd exiled long ago.

Created by an award-winning team of performer/writer Kate Walder, composer Max Lyandvert and designer Michael Hankin, this solo clown-based physical theatre work takes us on a timeless quest through Rome, Athens and Jerusalem - the great cities of myth, reason and revelation that may just save us yet.

WORLD PREMIERE

www.stepsandholestheatre.com/pilgrim

Presented by: Steps & Holes

Steps & Holes is a Sydney-based physical theatre company that champions the form of clown to promote a spirit of curiosity and unite diverse audiences. We explore robust ideas and generate timeless stories through the intersection of music, movement, text and design to create physically dynamic, visually arresting theatre. We have collaborated with organisations such as Legs On The Wall, the Australian Theatre for Young People, the Bondi Pavilion and the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre. Awards include: Sydney Theatre Award nominee, Critics Choice, Best in Design, Best in Physical Theatre nominee, Inner West Artist Development Awards (Sydney Fringe), Canberra Ovation Award. "Utterly delightful, achingly personal." Stage Whispers "Spectacular and beautiful." Canberra Theatre Blog
Theatre and Physical Theatre • Clown
New South Wales • World Premiere
Reviews
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    A personal odyssey; a quest to find love of life that explores the origins of our culture via mime, music, movement, light and shadow-play. - David Cronin, The Clothesline

  • honesty, joy, intimacy, and intricacy giving audiences a moment to pause and consider what it is to explore within - Lisa Lanzi, Theatre Travels

Suitability & warnings

Content rating: M
Target audience: High School (15-17)
Smoking
Smoke Effects

Presenter

Presented by: Steps & Holes

Steps & Holes is a Sydney-based physical theatre company that champions the form of clown to promote a spirit of curiosity and unite diverse audiences. We explore robust ideas and generate timeless stories through the intersection of music, movement, text and design to create physically dynamic, visually arresting theatre. We have collaborated with organisations such as Legs On The Wall, the Australian Theatre for Young People, the Bondi Pavilion and the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre. Awards include: Sydney Theatre Award nominee, Critics Choice, Best in Design, Best in Physical Theatre nominee, Inner West Artist Development Awards (Sydney Fringe), Canberra Ovation Award. "Utterly delightful, achingly personal." Stage Whispers "Spectacular and beautiful." Canberra Theatre Blog