BOAT TOURS NHZ
(NEW HARBOUR ZONES)

A performance at sea

In the summer of 2024, Public Performance (then named LIMINAL) in co-production with Sydhavn Theatre presented a large-scale, site-specific outdoor project in Copenhagen’s harbour; a performance built around a trip by tourist boat to hidden locations around the harbour area. We invited you to see Copenhagen’s waterfront with new eyes when, based on, among other things, Sydhavn’s history and potential, we staged a future scenario that let you go on an adventure and created a space where the unexpected could occur.

We hope to be able to bring back the performance in the summer of 2026, sign up for our newsletter if you want to be the first to hear about it.

“The five main actors on the tour are wonderful, and it is Adelaide Bentzon and Erik Pold who have elegantly staged BOAT TOURS NHZ … A performance that should not only be experienced for its great entertainment value and the futuristic world Bentzon and Pold have created, as well as the really cool sci-fi soundtrack by the electropop duo Oak & Shaw, but also because it is innovative performative political theater with meaning.
Who is the most beautiful in this country? BOAT TOURS NHZ is your and my mirror. And we can always use more of that.” 

Casper Koeller / Sceneblog

“The ambitiously wide-ranging boat tour performance marking Liminal’s 25th anniversary has the very appropriate character of a generous overbid: a demonstration of the group’s brainpower, risk-taking and ability to yawn at too much, yet always manage to haul it home. A rare experience in the Danish scene.”

Monna Dithmer / Politiken

“Liminal and Sydhavn Theater originally rethink the political theater and walking theater in a dove movement on a tour boat through Copenhagen Harbor … Boat Tours NHZ is a really well thought out and executed development of the many walks of the time. Sailing in itself gives a special atmosphere and the story is alternately fragmented and intense so that you yourself can sink a little into the scenery or wave to the music and then connect again. It is successful stagecraft. Beautiful and crass at the same time.”

Anne Liisberg / ISCENE

“A Danish summer evening can trump any stage designer. … Boat Tours NHZ takes full advantage of this. With great humour, however, they also make use of the scenery of the waterfront, and it is an experience to see the new zones – new districts, I mean – from the lakeside and see them embedded in a narrative with actors and dancers, music and song, humor and satirical bite . The text plays perfectly with what we see from the boat. Comical and satirical – and very accurate. Considering that it is actually no more expensive than a classic canal cruise of the same length, NHZ Boat Tours are absolutely competitive. And skilled in general.” 

Steen Blendstrup / POV International

credits

PERFORMERS

Tobias Shaw Petersen, Daniel Norback, Jupiter Child, Pernille Koch og Malik Grosos

Extras

Emmalou Indrio Langer, Selma Bernild, Carl Marius Mynthe, Joshua Thompson, Alma Ea Koch Andersen, Selma Erkut, Julia Zamora, Lola, Stephanie Juul Jensen, Karla Bay Sten, Magnus Mejlvang, Jonas Andersen, Ida Viktoria Kubach, Trine Prahm, Steen Skole, Birger Simonsen, Simon Thiede, Esther Buhl Jørgensen