Randi Lindholm Hansen
GENNEMBRUDDET The Breakthrough 2025
Written for Fyrspillerne i Sydthy
In the absence of the men who risk their lives everyday at sea, the play follows a group of fishermen’s wives at an enclave on the isthmus of Agger Tange at the very edge of the Danish West Coast. The play centres around five women’s symbiotic existence with each other and the ocean, and one fateful day in 1825 when a storm surge swallows part of the isthmus, severing the Northern top of Denmark from the rest of the country; an event that has drastically changed the environmental and industrial course of the country in the centuries to follow.
“We are the ones who gather. We gather berries and firewood and families. We gather experience and hope. We keep everything together. So don't say everything happens out there at sea.”
“We have forgotten that not all journeys are alike. It is not at all certain that we are going the same way.”
VAND(RE)HISTORIER Wandering Stories 2025
Written for Theatre Pilegården
An interactive play about the universal exploration of belonging. Both actors and audience become part of the collective circuit The Organism, and together we explore what it means to feel at home. In the fluidity of it all, somewhere between humor and reflection, a sense of community exists, and here there is room for everybody who wants part. A charming, playful and thought-provoking play for children aged 7-15.
ALICE PÅ AFVEJE Alice on Detour 2024
Written for Theatre Pilegården
A play about a young girl’s experience of performance pressure in the Danish school system. About expectations to know all the answers all of the time, and about navigating a strange world and allowing yourself to get lost along the way. The play is a reinterpretation of Alice in Wonderland set in the context of school phobia and childhood anxiety in a world where characters and places gradually transform into fairytale creatures helping her to find her own way.
“We’ve talked enough. Sometimes you just have to do something. Start walking maybe. And afterwards you can do something else.”
THE ISLAND COLLECTION PERFORMED 2023
For Oulu New Literature Festival
Denmark has 7.314 km shoreline. The country consists of 1.419 islands and 1 peninsula. 976 islands remain unnamed and 1.341 uninhabited. Where I grew up, there is 70 km to the North Sea, 90 km to Kattegat, and 217 km to Skagerrak; the furthest you can get from the sea anywhere in Denmark. I long for borders of salty water. The absence of land. An edge. Orientation inward rather than outward. Embracement. Fluid horizons. I was born on an island and have longed to be surrounded by water ever since.
In this performance reading, an audience is invited literary island hopping inside The Island Collection: a collection of flash fiction and prose poetry texts. The collection is navigated with the help of a typographic map, and the audience is in complete control of the narrative structure as they decide which islands to visit and in what order. If no one shows initiative, we don’t go anywhere. Welcome to The Island Collection.
"When writing about islands, one must keep in mind that islands are like the writing vocation. Remote, distanced from life itself yet desperate to participate. The very urge for participation, for inclusion, is what inevitably distance. And life will sail past and you will be waving longingly from ashore and life will ignore your desperate attempt at contact. Life doesn’t care about you."
EVENTYRET OM BØRNENE VED VERDENS ENDE 2023
The Tale of The Children at The End of The World
Written for Theatre Pilegården
A play that indulges in fairytale tropes and pays tribute to the playfulness of childhood. In this enchanted play, time stands still, imagination runs wild, and joy is the ultimate rule. But even in a place where the impossible becomes possible, endless adventures come with a price. A play for children aged 6-14.
“You have to admit our new friends have shown great courage and an adventurous spirit.”
"I didn’t know I was in your way. I’m terribly sorry. Maybe if I try really hard, I can float a little to the left. Would that help?"
A (DIS)PLAY OF ISLANDS 2022
Nordiskt Ljus Residency
A series of one-day-plays following a tidal islet who longs to be part of an archipelago and the events that unfold above and below them in the vast ocean. Each play was written in the course of a single and performed at a cold reading the same night.
ISLAND #2
You're barely even land. No grass, no sand, no vegetation, no tree. An island must have a proper roundness to it.
ISLET
I have a very nice rock. Just big enough so that it stays put when I dip, but not so big that it takes focus.
ISLAND #1
A rock sounds like a perfectly modest asset.
ISLAND #2
None of us have rocks.
ISLAND #1
Perhaps this archipelago could do with a reasonably sized rock.