While Nanny knits and tends to her hens and Marya engrosses herself in her radical pamphlets and the crusty old prof Srebrakayov plods on with his endless and pointless writing, the course of love doesn’t run smooth either for the diligent Sonya or the Prof’s glamorous wife Yelena, or for the vegetarian ecologist Dr Astrov...
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.
