Robots by Rossum

Imagine a world with robots, where things no longer have a price; there would be no poverty, with workers out of work because there is no work. Where everything is made by machines. A world where you only do what you love. Terrible things might come first, but that simply can’t be prevented. But then, the servitude of mankind would cease.

Robots by Rossum is an adaptation of Karel Čapek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots, the play that introduced the word robot to the world over a hundred years ago. As with many great plays it is always relevant with its questions about humanity and what it means to be human, but perhaps more so today than ever, in a time when artificial intelligence seems to be around the corner. Or perhaps it is already here? The play does not claim to present the one and only answer, but it does provide us with a looking glass into a possible version of our world that might have seemed farfetched a hundred years ago but now is as close as ever.

This production is performed in English.

Length: approx. 90 minutes, with no intermission.