"Goddamnit, I don’t know what to say... Is there any point in saying anything?"

a cabin in the forest
far from everything and everyone
a man recounts, sings, dances, laughs
rants, argues, provokes
about the people destroying nature
about the isolation he is forced to embrace
about the alienation we call technology
and the endless shouting on social media
about his longing for a real world
the audience turns jury
listens, empathizes, feels disgust, judges
or not

In this monologue written by Michael Bijnens at the request of Laika, Frank Dierens steps into the shoes of Ted Kaczynski, one of the most infamous and most wanted terrorists ever, better known as the Unabomber. The 81-year-old Kaczynski died in a high-security jail in North Carolina (US) on 10 June 2023.

In Outsider he takes the spectator inside his mind as he makes a passionate plea in his defence. We are given a glimpse of his dreams, motives and demons, his yearnings and frustrations and his visionary genius... or is it brilliant insanity?

“How can someone be that far gone?”, we wonder. But for Ted it is all very logical…