R.U.R.

“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

2 October 2018, Excelsior TEEN-FEST, Bucharest