R.U.R. at Gamut Theatre Group

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Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm. Sundays at 2:30pm.
Doors and Bar open one hour prior to the performance.

Tickets are $30 on Fridays and Saturdays
and on Sundays tickets are Bring Your Own Price, where any size donation buys your admission.

Imagine the future as seen through the eyes of the past...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Capek published his play, RUR: Rossum’s Universal Robots, to the world. The dark comedy took as its theme the dehumanization of society by its technology, as well as the self-destructive nature of mankind’s all-encompassing drive toward automation. Two years later, in 1923, the play had been translated into over 30 languages including English, by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair. This resulted in adding a new word to our vocabulary, as “robot” was fated to no longer be simply an obscure Czech term for “worker”. Please join us for this hilarious cautionary tale from nearly a century ago, as its message is as contemporary as the latest entry in your Social Media newsfeed.