![]() ![]() ![]() 6.1), where the production played until 1927 for a total of 63 performances, 1 and where spectators initially had to queue for tickets from 6 a.m. His international reputation, somewhat regrettably, has come to rest largely on this early play, particularly as it has been recognized in retrospect as a seminal forebear of science fiction. It was the first major achievement for Čapek, who was soon to become a celebrated fiction writer, playwright, journalist and a vocal public intellectual in Czechoslovakia. The play pictures the revolt of artificial human beings devised to perform manual labour instead of humans, whose name was derived by the author’s brother Josef from the Czech word ‘robota’, i.e. R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek received its first professional production at the National Theatre in Prague on 25 January 1921. ![]()
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