What I’m Here For.
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
Creative Associate Elicia Daly
BSL Interpreters Karen Forbes & Rebecca Goodall
English to Danish Text Translation / Oversættelse engelsk til dansk Mia Dinitzen
Cast: Mia Dinitzen, Lærke Schjærff Engelbrecht, Aisha Goodman, Aisha Lawal, Charlotte Trier.
When snow falls, flowers bloom.
Flora stands on the hospital roof, smoking. The snow falls. Her shift is over, but it won’t let her go. In fragments, she relives her overly long night shift on a chronically understaffed ward. Memories are unclear. Situations blur together. Faces and voices appear and disappear. She remembers lying so convincingly that she became afraid of herself. Flora holds other people’s lives in her hands, yet she is simultaneously caught between her own good intentions and the pressured healthcare system.
On this fateful night shift, the pressure becomes too much. Patients, relatives, doctors, receptionists and porters pull at her from all sides. Flora lets go, as responsibility, her own self-image and human lives slip from her grasp.
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.”
“★★★★★★ Excellent”
“★★★★★ A socially critical production worthy of five stars”
“★★★★★ ‘Excellent. Lærke Schjærff Engelbrecht’s portrayal of Flora is superbly complemented by the rest of the cast, as well as the set design, lighting and sound.’”
2026 PERFORMANCE DATES
Teater Katapult // Black Box, Aarhus, DENMARK
4 - 21 MARCH
Tron Theatre, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
1 - 4 APRIL
Dundee Rep Theatre, SCOTLAND
9 - 11 APRIL
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
15 - 18 APRIL
Photography by Jacob Stage.
