The Knitting Pilgrim, featuring actor and knitter Kirk Dunn, is a multidisciplinary one-man show that combines personal storytelling, image projection, and three huge, knitted panels that look like stained glass windows, to explore the connection amongst the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The play recounts Kirk’s fifteen-year artistic and spiritual journey of hand-knitting the ambitious project and looks at why people struggle to get along today, the meaning of art, and the power of love to overcome major obstacles (and minor mishaps).
The show premiered in Canada at the Aga Khan Museum in 2019, and has been performed to acclaim almost 100 times in Canada, Austria, Germany and the United States.
The Knitting Pilgrim will be on tour in the United Kingdom: