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The humans are dead and now it's up to the robots whether intelligent life survives.

Musical drama about a group of newly-built robots who have saved the world and must now learn how to survive, while coming to terms with emotion and free will.

Music and Lyrics by Susannah Pearse
Book by Robert Hudson

Karel Čapek's ultra-prescient, retro-futurist 1921 comedy is reimagined with a massive dose of character-driven and song-centred heart.

In Capek's world, robots did all the work and their human overseers cared only about enriching themselves and little about the costs to the planet. But now a new breed of robots has been grown and everything has changed. 

These new robots, with built-in emotion and free will, reasoned that the planet was being destroyed by intelligent life so they intervened by saving the world. The final part of their plan was to destroy themselves thus nullifying the damage they might cause to the planet. However, when push comes to shove, they can't bring themselves to do it. Instead, they must come to terms with what it means to be robot.

Alpha . . . . . Anneika Rose
Radius . . . . . Paul Hilton
Helen 2 . . . . . Clare Foster
Brown Owl . . . . . Neil McCaul
Alquist . . . . . Matthew Durkan
Benoit . . . . . Chris Jack

Arrangements and Musical Direction: Harry Sever
Production co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor
Sound: Peter Ringrose
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

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Musical drama inspired by Karel Čapek's 1921 comedy which gave us the word 'robot'.

Musical drama inspired by Karel Čapek's 1921 comedy which gave us the word 'robot'. The planet is being destroyed and a new breed of robot are determined to save it.

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