HIMHERANDIT Productions (DK)
Shroud (Chapter 4)
PART OF THE GRIEF WORK SERIESS:
SHROUD is both a raw and personal reflection on love and grief and a dreamlike landscape of dark fantasy and haunting beauty. Shifting fabrics take shape inside rings of huge curtains to a deeply poetic and immersive experience. Reimagining the symbolic rituals of farewells to create a space where memory and love intertwine.
The five chapters in The Grief Work Series:
- CHAPTER ONE: CHAMPIONS (2020)
- CHAPTER TWO: MY UNDYING LOVE (2021)
- CHAPTER THREE: CARCASS (2023)
- CHAPTER FOUR: SHROUD (2025)
- CHAPTER FIVE: DEATH IS NOT THE END (2025)
SHROUD: a cloth used to cover or wrap a body in death rituals, symbolizing concealment and transition.
SHROUD is a captivating visual theatre experience that explores love, memory, and transformation. Set in a dreamlike world, it brings buried emotions to life through stunning visuals, delicate gestures, and fluid stagecraft. The performance blurs the lines between life and afterlife, the real and the imagined, and creates a mystical space where sorrow and beauty coexist, and love guides us through profound change.
The performance reimagines the rituals of farewell, creating a space where love and memory intertwine in a dance of presence and absence. A deeply poetic and immersive performance which offers a rare, cathartic experience that reflects on the enduring power of love, loss, and the emotional landscapes we carry within us.
The evening’s programme:
Prelude – 20 min.
Transition – 10 min.
Performance – 50 min.
PRELUDE TO SHROUD (Part One)
Opening with an intimate prelude, “SHROUD” invites the audience into a deeply personal reflection on loss, memory and connection. Using footage from Andreas Constantinou’s own experience of his parents’ funerals, it explores universal themes of remembrance and the bonds we share and honor with those we’ve lost. Through stillness and contemplation, Andreas listens to the words spoken at the ceremonies in a beautiful moment of reflection.
SHROUD (Part Two)
In the second act, “SHROUD” transports us into a surreal landscape where memories and emotions take shape as mystical beings, emerging from shifting fabrics and ethereal light. Inside rings of giant moving curtains these magical forms guide us through a journey of transformation, where the extraordinary arises from our deepest feelings.
PLEASE NOTE: Strobe lights are used in the performance.
LANGUAGE:
The spoken parts are in English, while much of the performance is non-verbal.
“Shroud is a performance that takes its audience all the way through the stages of grief and back again. It’s an experience of true catharsis that leaves us in the audience recharged and with new perspectives on grief and love. We look forward to inviting new and old fans to Shroud again.”
– Creative and executive director Lotte Kofod Ludvigsen
Reviews
★★★★★★
“Shroud exposes the privacy of death, a masterful work of art that deserves a six-star rating. Thank you.”
– Kulturnyt (read the full review – in Danish)
★★★★★
“Makes it possible to physically feel the frustrations, grief and difficult emotions right up to the back row of the audience. There is nothing new in an artist using their own personal experiences and emotions in their work. But when it is done as powerfully as Andreas Constantinou manages in Shroud, it feels completely universal, and we understand why artists over the centuries have chosen this approach.”
– Iscene (read the full review – in Danish)
★★★★★
“Everything pulls us into a different universe. We are no longer in the theatre. We are somewhere between reality and the subconscious, a place where the many layers of grief unfold before us. Shroud is not just a show you see – it’s a show you feel! Constantinou and his artistic team manage to create an intense experience that leaves a lasting impression long after the play is over.”
– Ungt Teaterblod (read the full review – in Danish)
“On the one hand, the performance kept me in its own urgent and painful now, but at the same time sent me many other places along the way.”
– Peripeti (read the full review – in Danish)
Videos about the performance
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Andreas Constantinou about Shroud
THE TEAM
Why see the performance?
SHROUD Programme
A printed program has been produced for SHROUD that tells about both the performance and The Grief Works.
It can be purchased for 25 kroner at the Bora Bora box office. PLEASE NOTE! A limited number of copies are available.
The other performances in The Grief Work Series
My Undying Love (Chapter 2)
Carcass (Video presentation) (Chapter 3)
Death Is Not The End (Chapter 5)
Champions (Chapter 1)
About HIMHERANDIT Productions (DK)
HIMHERANDIT Productions is one of the leading queer art companies in Denmark led by the artistic vision of Andreas Constantinou. Their artistic practice fluctuates between genres of performance art, physical theatre, contemporary dance, immersive theatre and large-scale video installations. The company develops projects that push, provoke, and engage audience into discourse around social subjects of gender, sexuality and identity.
Website: himherandit.com
Credits
Artistic Concept / Director /
Choreographer / Performer:
Andreas Constantinou
Collaborative artist / Dramaturgy /
Outside Eye:
Tone Haldrup Lorenzen
Scenography / Technical Manager:
Jeppe Cohrt
Video Design / Lights / Photography / Trailer:
Christoffer Brekne
Music & Sound Design:
Johannes Smed
Voice actor (Intermission & Meditation):
Zoe Mills
Producers:
Sigrid Aakvik, Art & About
Signe Sandvej, Art & About
Artists involved in early research period:
Magnus Pind (Video)
Tim Panduro (First Video Trailer)
Siri Knutsen (Rehearsal Director)
Anna Loft (Intern)
Co-producers:
Bora Bora – dans & visuelt teater
Funded by:
The Danish Arts Foundation
The City of Aarhus
William Demant Fonden
Augustinus Fonden
Danish Actors’ Association Production Support