What I'm Here For

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.

What I'm Here For is performed in a mix of English and Danish, with all dialogue accompanied by integrated subtitles in both languages.

What I'm Here For (Danish title Flora) is a co-production between internationally acclaimed companies Vanishing Point (Scotland) and Teater Katapult (Denmark).

Vanishing Point is funded by Creative Scotland.

Reviews

★★★★★ 'A remarkable theatrical collaboration... a slow burning tone poem full of light and shade that is as damning as it is devastating.' - The Herald

★★★★★ '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)

★★★★★ 'Excellent' — Kulturkongen (Denmark)

★★★★★ 'A socially critical production worthy of five stars' — Kulturnyt (Denmark)

★★★★ 'Life-and-death choices are taken to gothic heights in this intense, atmospheric high-precision production' - The Guardian

★★★★ 'A theatrical experience that is arresting, incisive and utterly uncompromising in its aesthetical ambition…A triumph of craft, vision and art' - Corr Blimey

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