“Look out at your children 
See their faces in golden rays 
Don't kid yourself, they belong to you 
They're the start of the coming race 
The Earth is a bitch, we've finished our news 
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use” 
David Bowie, Oh! You Pretty Things 

Following The Great Downhill Journey Of Little Tommy and The Only Way Is Up, Boris Van Severen and Jonas Vermeulen have reunited for a third concert theatre performance. This time, it is a more socially inspired chronicle about the fascinating but challenging relationship between humans and technology, between creator and creation.

Is our philosophy of progress inexhaustible? When will we reach its limits? Are the answers provided by endless innovation real solutions, or are they fodder for new problems that lead us down a dead-end road? 
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 increasingly complex ways.
The creators find this theme in the work of David Bowie, which was largely inspired by the space race in the 1960s, and especially in his alter ego Ziggy Stardust. Not only the music, but also the idea of a prophet who must bring salvation appeals immensely to the imagination. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, on the other hand, fits seamlessly with the AI dynamic as a story about a creation that gains the upper hand over humans and heralds their downfall. 

A musical performance inspired by Stop Making Sense and American Utopia by Talking Heads and David Byrne. Jonas Vermeulen, Boris Van Severen, Ephraïm Cielen, Sarah Yu Zeebroek and Caro Abutoh are the humans who move nomadically across the stage. They travel through time and space in a simple but exhilarating choreography, telling their own story in their own world.