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R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots) is the play that invented the term "robot." Published in 1920, in the face of rapid industrialization and capitalistic growth, the play asks the prescient question, "who stands to benefit the most from technological progress?"

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The answer to that question during Čapek's time was, "everyone but the working class," a statement that has, unfortunately, remained true a century later. ​I directed this play as a visiting artist at Triton College.