Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.) is a 1920’s Czech Sci-Fi play written by Karel Čapek,
about a factory which produces the first ever ‘Robots’, a term first introduced to the english language by Čapek himself. In Rhys Parks & Riley Reid’s adaptation of this script, they ask the audience what will become of a world dominated by robotic labour? And when (or if) a man-made machine becomes a living creature? Morals become grey, and the world changes, from the perspective of a monopolized industry. See the inevitable fate of the world, from the comfort of Rossum’s factory.
Content Warnings:
Existential topics including: religion, evolution, & self-consciousness. Violence, on-and-off-stage murder, and firearms (gun violence), mental illness and death in general. Talk of body horror and the grotesque. Talk of suicide. Alcohol.
Sensory Warnings:
Sounds of: explosions, gunshots (on-and-off-stage), loud machines, fire, cybernetic augmentation, marching, and screams. Lighting blackouts & instantaneous shifts.