Teatr KTO in Kraków has put together a programme for the last weekend of October 2026, just before All Saints’ Day. It comprises two musical performances and a night-time tour of the theatre to mark Halloween. The programme explores transience, memory and, at the same time, the beauty of life, love and the emotions that give it meaning.
Programme:
- 30 October (Friday), 19:00: ‘Arcadia’ by Jerzy Zoń. A wordless performance with choreography by Eryk Makohon, lasting just under an hour. It presents the successive stages of human life: from childhood innocence, through youth, love and adulthood, to transience. The musical mosaic includes pieces by Dead Can Dance, Stevie Wonder and Doris Day, along with an aria from the opera ‘Madame Butterfly’. The titular Arcadia is presented as a state whose traces can be found in everyday moments. The production has won numerous awards; it is directed by Jerzy Zoń, director of Teatr KTO.
- 31 October (Saturday), 19:00: ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’. This is a performance concert directed by Małgorzata Warsicka, with music by Karol Nepelski performed live. Shakespeare’s sonnets on love, jealousy, beauty and the passing of time are presented in a contemporary, musical interpretation. The production asks whether love can overcome time, what remains of a person, and whether art can protect us from being forgotten.
- 31 October (Saturday), after the performance: a tour of the theatre’s hidden corners for Halloween. Accompanied by a mysterious Harlequin, participants will visit areas normally off-limits to the public, discover the stories hidden behind the scenes and see props from past productions. The tour is intended to be more sophisticated than frightening, although it does include an element of eeriness.