What I’m Here For

Josephine Eusebius

Venue: Teater Katapult, Aarhus & Scottish Tour
Company: Vanishing Point / Teater Katapult

Director: Matthew Lenton
Set & Costume Designer: Mai Katsume
Composer & Sound Designer: Mark Melville
Associate Director: Ben Standish

Production Manager: Ali Low
Production Electrician: Becky Kirkness

Photographer: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Supplemented by typically excellent lighting by Simon Wilkinson and the occasional use of dry ice, the striking visual aesthetic foregrounds the text in a way that no assiduously naturalistic stage design ever could.

Mark Brown, The National

Rather, through a fusion of performances, Mai Katsume’s black box design, Melville’s sound and Simon Wilkinson’s ethereal lighting, it becomes a kind of sensurround meditation in which visual poetry marks out the losses in the thin air. 

Neil Cooper, The Herald

Nurses, doctors and patients appear as silhouettes against a void, their movements illuminated by Simon Wilkinson’s austere lighting, which slices through the darkness like a scalpel, and allows for some magic on occasion.

Dominic Corr, Corr Blimey

Simon Wilkinson’s austere lighting design adds to the atmosphere of monochrome terror. The effect, in Matthew Lenton’s high-precision production, is to turn a stressful night on the wards into something like gothic horror.

Mark Fisher, The Guardian

impeccably lit by Simon Wilkinson.

Joyce Macmillan, The Scotsman