If robots take over the world what would be their relationship to humans? Would it be a carefree utopia with happy automatons cheerfully laboring away while people enjoy a life of leisure or will the robots develop ideas and aspirations of their own, eventually viewing their human creators as archaic inferior predecessors, in-fact outdated models?
This is the concept behind Bo List’s R.U.R. a world premiere production, freely adapted from the play Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Capek playing now at City Lit Theatre, directed by Brian Pastor.