We Happy Few presents “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)”
October 31 @ 7:00 pm - November 16 @ 9:30 pm
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
by Karel Čapek
based on the translation by Nigel Playfair & Paul Selver
Oct 31-Nov 16
at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
545 7th St SE, Washington DC 20003
Tickets: CLICK HERE
The Original Robot Apocalypse Story. Really.
Humans have invented intelligent robots that look just like them to do all their menial tasks. That is, until the robots revolt. Who saw that one coming? Famous for being the first use of the word “robot”—this play invented all the tropes.
Rossum has developed a method to create human-like robots, and a factory is built on a remote island to crank out enough robots to meet demand. Around the world, robots quickly replace humans in what are considered menial tasks: assembly lines, domestic labor, secretarial work, etc. A young woman journeys to the island to free the robots, but in her naive enthusiasm, becomes deeply embroiled in the fate of the robots, and ultimately, the fate of the human race. R.U.R. is a sci-fi melodrama before the genre existed.
DIRECTED BY – Matt Reckeweg
FEATURING
Made Key, Paige O’Malley, Emilia Pazniokas, Andrew Quilpa, Matthew Sparacino, Shaquille Stewart, and Scott Whalen
DESIGN TEAM
Makenzi Wentela (stage management)
Kerry McGee (producing)
Keith Hock (production management)
Jason Aufdem-Brinke (lighting design)
Amy Bormet (original music composition)
Matt Reckeweg (set design)
Lee Gerstenhaber (costume design)
Jaimee Fricklas (technical direction)
Robert Pike (fight choreography)
Keith Hock (dramaturgy)
Todd Hilgert (graphic design)