Emre Akal

Four blind seers are the last people to persevere in the ruins of the supposedly real and analog world and remember life and humanity on planet Earth. The rest of humanity has uploaded its souls and bodies into the digital vastness of the metaverse. Shadows and scraps of human remnants, legacies and guilt fly past the blind eyes of the seers. They write a book of the remembered past as a guide to life for future generations. But mistakes creep into the memory and doubts about the credibility of what is told and shown. Are we really still in the analog world or perhaps already in its digital pirate copy - somewhere in an experience in the metaverse?

The metaverse - the utopia of a parallel digital reality that connects all social platforms and virtual worlds - is becoming a place of longing for the masses. The time of the first computers, behind which humans sat and controlled them, is long gone. The AI-driven digital age with its promises of infinite development and identity expansion in virtual worlds has already begun. But what does that mean for the "rest" who missed the leap into the new era? Or could not afford to access and participate in it in the first place?

With NACHKOMMEN - Ein lautes Schweigen!, the director and author Emre Akal continues his four-part series about life at the interface of digitality and analogity. His previous productions and plays have been seen at the Münchner Kammerspiele, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Thalia Theater Hamburg and Schauspiel Leipzig, among others.