Robert Jerdee and Kaitlin Campbell in Rossum’s Universal Robots.
The San Antonio Current has a review of The Overtime Theater’s production of R.U.R. – Rossum’s Universal Robots and reviewer Micah Clare dishes some high praise:
Isaac Asimov himself panned Karel Capek’s 1921 play, R.U.R. – Rossum’s Universal Robots, as “a terribly bad one, but … immortal for that one word.” Maybe he just needed to wait a few decades to see Roy Thomas’s 21st-century adaptation, playing through July 10 at the Overtime Theater.
It sounds like Clare had a good time at the show:
The original “machines rise to overthrow their masters” epic, R.U.R. is credited with introducing the term “robot” to the world’s lexicon and heralding a new era of science fiction. Fans of Metropolis, Blade Runner, and their dystopian ilk will find themselves right at home in Overtime’s tight yet cozy theater. In only an hour and 45 minutes, the viewer gets an engrossing and sometimes chilling escape into the retro-future, realized to satisfaction with props, décor, and lighting right out of an old Flash Gordon serial.
Head over to the Current’s site to read the entire review, “The end of the world as we know it – One of these times, Capek will be right“.
