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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

What I’m Here For review – high-pressure horror of a nurse’s shift from hell

Sense of alienation … Lærke Schjærff Engelbrecht, centre in white robes, surrounded by other performers in black.
Sense of alienation … Lærke Schjærff Engelbrecht, centre in white robes, in What I’m Here For. Photograph: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

The standard colour scheme for hospital dramas is clinical white. You expect gleaming walls and antiseptic surfaces, institutionally bright. Mai Katsume takes the opposite tack.

In this co-production between Vanishing Point from Glasgow and Teater Katapult from Aarhus, Denmark, the designer dresses nurses, doctors and patients in black and lines them up across an ominously dark stage.

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