R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

by Karel Čapek

DIRECTED BY: Vlad Cristache; ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR: Emőke Boldizsár; SCENOGRAPHY: Andreea Tecla, Mădalina Niculae; CHOREOGRAPHY: Ștefan Lupu; DRAMATURGY: Fabiola Eidloth; CAST: Valentin Späth, Anca Cipariu, Daniel Plier, Daniel Bucher, Renate Müller-Nica, Ali Deac, Emőke Boldizsár, Fabiola Petri, Robert Fekete, Adrian Neacșu, Cristina Blaga, Veronica Arizancu, Eduard Pătrașcu, Pali Vecsei, Cristian Iordan, Flavius Haiducescu, Gabriel Popescu, Andrada Oltean, Larisa Miskolczi, Andrei Suveica, Alexandrina Grecu, Darius Prodan, Alis Pelle, Cezara Crețu
WITH THE SUPORT OF AS. MED. PR. Andrei Mihu

duration: 1h 45min

tickets price: 25 lei / 20 lei

Warning: Strobe lighting effects used during this performance can cause seizures in persons who may suffer from photosensitive epilepsy.

“R.U.R. is a science-fiction theatre performance, a view into a dystopian future in which our obsession for technological progress brings us to ruin. It’s the first script that advanced the idea that society will manage to create artificial intelligence, mechanical replicas of humans that will work in our place. A society with masters and slaves, in which man plays God and creates machines with souls. 
We have tried to generate on stage a world of the future on the brink of the apocalypse, a world that speaks about the present-day us, about a sterile society, devoid of affect, compassion, obsessed with robot-people, in which you gradually lose your identity. The performance is constructed as an installation-concert, using as soundtrack the music of the band Kraftwerk, the fathers of electronic music. It’s a ludic show, a postmodern collage of all the stylistic stereotypes from Sci-Fi movies and books that have excited me since childhood.
But, through the compilation of dark and entertaining eccentricities, R.U.R. tries to answer a fundamental philosophical question... What makes you human?”

(Vlad Cristache)

THE GERMAN DEPARTMENT – PERFORMANCE PRESENTED WITH ROMANIAN TRANSLATION

PERFORMANCE NOT RECOMMENDED UNDER 14 YEARS OLD

PERFORMANCE REALIZED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRATIC GERMAN FORUM SIBIU.