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.
Imagine a world where robots can perform any task a human can as long as they are told to. A world where humans are only needed to consume and be served.
Are humanity’s actions predetermined? Is there only one logical way forward for artificial intelligence, or robots in this case? Join us in the one factory producing robots for the whole world and see for yourself what might happen!
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.
On stage:
Mark-Emil Janhunen as Domin
P-O Jörgensen as Leon
Billie Willett as Dr. Gallemeier
Jet van Aardenne as Busbry
Sebastian Larsson as Ahlquist
Elin Holm as Radius
Direction: Sebastian Larsson
Lights & Sound: Miranda Yung
Shows:
Friday September 19th 19:00
Saturday September 20th 19:00
Sunday September 21th 15:00
Friday September 26th 19:00
Saturday September 27th 19:00
Length: Approx. 90 minutes, with no intermission.
The production is presented by Teaterverket in collaboration with ABF Stockholm.
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