


Het Zuidelijk Toneel & Enkidu Khaled
How will AI imagine humans in the future, long after they have become extinct? And what does it mean to be ‘offline’ in that world? In Offline Tourists, you enter the mind of a cyborg who imagines the analog world of humans.
Offline Tourists is set in the year 2500. Humans have become extinct and the earth is overgrown with greenery. But among all that greenery live cyborgs of all shapes and sizes. A so-called Hu-bot organizes an experience for the cyborg audience. From the future, the Hu-bot takes the viewer back to 2025 to explore what it meant to be offline and what life was like for those offline beings.
We can't even imagine that in 2500! To complete your experience, the Hu-bot creates two copies of humans - including flesh, blood, and bones - for educational and entertainment purposes. Come and see! Come and see! The reverse Frankenstein!

During his studies in Amsterdam, Belgian-Iraqi director Enkidu Khaled created a unique method that allows anyone - child or adult, beginner or expert - to create theater. He presented this method in his solo performance Working Method, for which he received the Big in Belgium Award at the Edinburgh Festival. What makes storytelling in theater so unique for Enkidu is that the audience has the opportunity to touch the threads of gravity within the theatrical space. They influence the work, change the tone, and become co-creators.

Text: Luna Joosten
Dramaturgy: Joachim Robbrecht
Dramaturgy rookie: Marit Schimmel
Sound design: Anne van de Star
Sound: Anne van de Star & Enkidu Khaled
Video: Lore Verhoeven & Enkidu Khaled
Technics: De Jongens van Het Zuidelijk Toneel
Technics: Lore Verhoeven
Costume design: Sarah Moeremans & Daphne de Winkel
Photography: Sofie Knijff