RUR or R.U.R
Rehearsals are underway for the next play I got lucky enough to be cast in. R.U.R. or Rossums Universal Robots. A Czech playwright named KarelCapek wrote it in the 1920's and was ostensibly the first commercial coinage of the word ROBOT from the czech word robota or robotnik. You can read more about it here.While Kapek envisioned biologically grown organic robots it was Huxley's, Brave New World that first realized the C3PO idea of robots popular today.
I play Dr. Hallemeier the psychologist that programs (patterns) the robots brains. I'm a hedonistic character who is ultimately undone by his desires, or at least one of them. Once again I am lucky to have two of my offspring, the two oldest fruit of my loins in the production. Josh plays Radius, a robot who has a discipline problem and Cara plays Helenova, the robotic equivalent of Eve. It looks to be a good production and if you are interested in tickets contact Appleseed Productions. The adaptation we're doing is by Lee Shackleford of University of Alabama, Birmingham and is Lee is planning on attending one of the performances. Should be a hoot.ba
3 Comments:
jon your blog was offline (site down?) when i checked the last couple days...good to see it back up
(jon rothwell)
Yeah dang domain expired and I didn't see the email. arrrgggghhhhh
Jon and Kyle
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