by Karel Capek, translated from the Czech by P. Selver, and adapted by Nigel Playfair.
With Simon Ward as Harry, Tessa Peake-Jones as Helena, Harry Twob as Alquist, Nigel Anthony as Dr Gall, John Rye as Jacob Berman, Sean Barrett as Dr Helman and Peter Craze as Fabry.
It was this play which, in tne 1920s, introduced "robot" into the English language. The setting is Rossum's Universal Robot factory: the time - the future.
