This is one of the most exciting plays I've read about tech/AI. It addresses in a novel way how our relationships to AI/tech impacts identity formation, anxiety, and our relationships with other people. I found myself consistently delighted and surprised as the scenes moved along, and the play built to a poignant, powerful, human (and humorous) ending. I was also amazed at how the speculative world building aspects were folded in seamlessly. I'd be excited to see this fully realized onstage!

If the tech oligarchs should get their wish, and the bulk of human activity and emotion should be outsourced to artificial intelligence for fun and profit, who exactly is going to teach us how to act like normal people? And will those teachers be heroes, renegades, or both? Drew Paryzer's OFFSHOOT is a remarkable, poetic fever dream that finds unfathomable, overwhelming humanity in the very moment we risk losing it forever. A gobsmacking wonder of a play.