Opus Apparatus

Ziggy Stardust meets Frankenstein in an energetic theater concert that seeks the boundary with visual theater. After ‘The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy’ and ‘The only way is UP’, Boris Van Severen and Jonas Vermeulen seek each other out again for a third concert theater performance. This time it will be a more socially inspired chronicle about the fascinating but challenging relationship between human and technology, between creator and creation. Is our urge to create inexhaustible? When do we hit its limits? Are the answers that endless innovation yields real solutions or are they fodder for new problems, which lead us into a dead end? In times of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the urge for expansion, Opus Apparatus tells a highly topical story about a community of driven people who have to relate to an entity they cannot control, which they created by accident and which interacts with them in an increasingly layered way. The creators find this theme in the oeuvre of David Bowie, which was largely inspired by the space race in the sixties, and especially in his alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Not only because of the music, the idea of a prophet who must bring salvation also appeals immensely to the imagination. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in turn, fits seamlessly with the desire for a story about a human creation that gains the upper hand and heralds the downfall.