Vanishing Point / Teater Katapult

What I’m Here For.

Staged and Directed by Matthew Lenton
Text by Josephine Eusebius
Set & Costume Design by Mai Katsume
Lighting Design by Simon Wilkinson
Sound Design & Composition by Mark Melville
Dramaturgy by Rikke Frigast Jakobsen
Associate Director Ben Standish
BSL Interpreters Karen Forbes &Rebecca Goodall

Flora stands on the roof, smoking. As the snow begins to fall, she reflects on the night just passed.

During her shift, Flora told a lie so convincingly that she frightened herself. Was she placing compassion before truth, or was she exposing a darkness within herself?

As lights flicker on and the city awakes, she travels back in time. Back to the chaos-fuelled, fluorescent-lit corridors of Ward 7. Back into the room of the girl she lied to.

With bold theatrical innovation and immersive world-building typical of Vanishing Point and Teater Katapult (Denmark), What I’m Here For (Danish title Flora) is a fast-moving fusion of new European writing and visual imagination, which explores the tragi-comic collateral of hospitals and human choices.

Multilingual, with surtitles integrated into the design, What I’m Here For is an international collaboration created by the teams that brought you Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey and The Insider.

“★★★★★★ Five sublime performances... Josephine Eusebius’s text jumps in time and perspective in an almost cinematic manner, which director Matthew Lenton orchestrates wonderfully… Art increasingly reflects itself more than the society that surrounds it. But every now and then, the two go hand in hand.”

— iScene (Denmark)