Rossum’s Universal Robots into a future in which robots take over the world. It has been variously described as a “Fantastic melodrama”, a “Futuristic fairy tale”, or “Dark comedy”. This futuristic play, by Karel Čapek (1890–1938) first premiered in 1921. Yet questions of our times – artificial intelligence, the industrial creation and manipulation of life,...
“At five-thirty this morning, we closed the door of our apartment behind us. My cat was the only living creature I said goodbye to. The unmade beds, the breakfast things on the table all created the impression we’d left in a hurry.
As the mercury plunges relentlessly by the day and the bright sparkle of Christmas lights up the skyline at night,
The Lisbon Players brings you Alan Ayckbourn's jolly and loving ode to the thespian life.
