BLOOD by Thomas Hjelesen

(Performed at Skuespilhuset, May 2022 & Den Fynske Opera, October 2018)

A musical-dramatic staging of Edith Södergran’s highly relevant poems — a poetic work about the power to define oneself, written amid the senseless bloodshed of World War I.

Text: Edith Södergran (1892-1923)

Composer: Jakob Thorkild Overgaard

Actor & vocalist: Lisbeth Sonne

Concept: Thomas Hejlesen

Theatrical production: Thomas Hejlesen og Ninna Steen

Lights, video og scenography: Steen & Hejlesen

Music played by: Messerkvartetten

Text consultent: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

Administration & production: VonHeiduck

Supported by: 

Statens Kunstfond / K-Select / The Royal Danish Theatre

Blood Title Theme. Recorded at The Village Recording, mixed & mastered by Brian Mørk Hansen

Blood Middle Theme. Recorded at The Village Recording, mixed & mastered by Brian Mørk Hansen

Blood Noise Drone