![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Society is a machine that produces beings every bit as programmed and restricted as the biomechanical robots that emerge from the factories. It's a play about being trapped by the roles that others set for us. A decade passes and new experimental robots are produced, but humanity is in decline and a war with the robots leads to the extermination of the human race.Ĭhris, who wrote the script, told us “Karel Capek's play R.U.R., which gave us the term 'robot' and promptly envisaged a robot apocalypse mere pages later, is an oddly compelling mix of satire, science fiction, comedy, and tragedy. She is appalled by their attitude towards the robots. In the play Helena, a representative of the League of Humanity, a group who seek freedom for the robots, visits the factory that produces the robots and meets the managers and chief scientists. The play, written in 1920 and first performed in January 1921, introduced the word robot to the English language. ![]()
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