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Rossum's Universal Robots
by Karel Capek
English version by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair
Adapted for modern little theatre by Robert Christiansen and Stephen Eric Thompson
You won't believe that the original version of this play, very appropriate today,
was staged over 100 years ago in Czechoslavakia
This play is now in rehearsal, but we still have one role open. It is a minor role, but an important one.
Roles are open as follows:
ROBOTS
Primus. An advanced robot. Male, 25-35.
Note: Primus conveys a touch of humanity.
If you are interested in one of this role, please email cbpaa.info@gmail.com ASAP with your telephone number.
IN BRIEF: It is 10 years in the future. A young science historian has discovered the works of a man named Rossum who learned how to make robots that are very human-like. Part of the secret was discovered on a remote island off the east coast of the United States. The young man moves to the island and with a skilled scientist, engineer, and manufacturer and sets up a business producing skilled man-like robots. Eventually the robots figure out that humans are useless and set out to eliminate them. But in eliminating the scientists that created them, they have lost the ability to create skilled robots. They themselves will eventually wear out. The world seems doomed.