# Pilgrim – 2026 Adelaide Fringe

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 21 January 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/pilgrim-2026-adelaide-fringe/

STEPS & HOLES theatre co: PILGRIM What do you follow when faith disappears? Following the faint footprints of an elusive bull (in the Zen tradition of the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures) PILGRIM is a solo, clown-based physical theatre work that traces a woman’s quest to recover her lost faith in love and perhaps in the story…

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**STEPS & HOLES theatre co: PILGRIM**

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**What do you follow when faith disappears?**

Following the faint footprints of an elusive bull (in the Zen tradition of the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures) PILGRIM is a solo, clown-based physical theatre work that traces a woman’s quest to recover her lost faith in love and perhaps in the story itself.

Wandering deeper into the birthplace of the Western foundational stories, our pilgrim journeys through  
Rome, Athens and Jerusalem – the great cities of myth, reason and revelation. Guided by unseen forces and  
ancient questions, she is gently led towards her own spiritual origin, to retrieve something she exiled long  
ago. Blending physical comedy, ritual, and philosophical inquiry, PILGRIM is a timeless quest that asks  
urgent contemporary questions: What do we believe in now? What stories shape us? And what happens  
when the old maps no longer work?

Created by an award-winning creative team – performer and writer Kate Walder, composer Max Lyandvert,  
and designer Michael Hankin – PILGRIM is an intimate theatrical encounter both visually arresting and  
emotionally resonant. It balances humour and vulnerability with profound spiritual inquiry.

This world premiere marks the latest work from Kate Walder, a director, performer, and writer whose  
practice centres on the creation of original works both in Australia and internationally. A graduate of  
WAAPA’s Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre) and École Philippe Gaulier in Paris, Walder has built a distinctive  
artistic voice that combines rigorous physical technique with emotional openness, curiosity and wit.  
PILGRIM invites audiences into a shared act of searching – a reminder that even in a fractured world, the  
journey itself may still hold meaning.

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**Steps & Holes** is an award-winning multidisciplinary theatre company that draws on the archetype of the  
fool to spark curiosity, uncover shared truths and unite diverse audiences.

They explore robust ideas and generate timeless stories through the intersection of music, movement, text,  
design and puppetry to create physically dynamic, visually arresting theatre.

Their work achieves both intimacy and a sense of the epic and provides space for reflection, ignites the  
imaginative spirit and awakens our humanity.

**Pilgrim**  
*Venues: THE LAB, FOOL’s paradise*  
*Main Theatre, Goodwood Theatres*  
*Dates: 25 Feb – 8 March 2026*  
*Times: Various, check BOOKINGS PAGE*  
***Tickets: $22 – $32 (HERE)***  
*Duration: 50 minutes*  
*Suitable for 15+*

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