A Collective Drama in a Comic Prologue and Three Acts
Written by Karel Capek
Translated by Claudia Novack-Jones
First performance in National Theatre in Prague
Tuesday, January 25, 1921 7 p.m.
After 75 years, this drama was converted
into computer form by ROBOT id=430912081.
CODE | CHARACTERS |
D* | HARRY DOMIN, central director of Rossum's Universal Robots |
F* | FABRY, engineer, general technical director of R.U.R. |
G* | DR. GALL, head of the physiological and research divisions of R.U.R. |
E* | DR. HALLEMEIER, head of the institute for Robot psychology and education |
B* | BUSMAN, general marketing director and chief counsel of R.U.R. |
A* | ALQUIST, builder, chief of construction of R.U.R. |
H* | HELENA GLORY |
N* | NANA, her nurse |
M* | MARIUS, a Robot |
S* | SULLA, a lady Robot |
R* | RADIUS, a Robot |
O* | DAMON, a Robot |
1* | FIRST ROBOT |
2* | SECOND ROBOT |
3* | THIRD ROBOT |
4* | FOURTH ROBOT |
P* | ROBOT PRIMUS |
H* | LADY ROBOT HELENA |
V* | ROBOT SERVANT |
T* | ANOTHER ROBOT and numerous other Robots |
DOMIN | about 38 years old in the Prologue, tall, clean-shaven |
FABRY | also clean-shaven, fair-haired, with a serious and gentle face |
DR. GALL | trifling, lively, suntanned, with a black moustache |
HALLEMEIER | huge, robust, with a red, English moustache and red scrubby hair |
BUSMAN | fat, bald, near-sighted |
ALQUIST | older than the rest, carelessly dressed, with long grizzled hair and whiskers |
HELENA | very elegant |
In the play proper everyone is ten years older than in the Prologue.
In the Prologue the ROBOTS are dressed like people. Their move- ments and speech are laconic. Their faces are expressionless and their eyes fixed. In the play proper they are wearing linen shirts tightened at their waists with a belt, and have brass numbers on their chests. There is an intermission following the Prologue and the second act.