RUR Resources

Here's a big Karel Čapek website, with biography, chronology, book excerpts, links, and a real robot Karel Čapek who writes plays and dances the two-step—okay, not that last one.

Dig this digital mini-opera based on R.U.R.

This website for the BBC program Tomorrow's Worlds is devoted to sci-fi history, including many robotic children of R.U.R.

This excerpt of the play—which ran on the BBC—was the first sci-fi television broadcast ever.

This was a television adaptation of the play, again on the BBC.

Check out this timeline of robots, in real life and fiction.

Here's a biography which answers this burning question. (Hint: man)

Dig this trailer for a stage performance of R.U.R.

This performance is of the first act of R.U.R.

Okay, so maybe we just wanted an excuse to showcase a They Might Be Giants video.

Enjoy this hour-and-45-minute reading of the play.

Here's an image from the 1938 BBC broadcast of a section of R.U.R.

Dig this poster for a 1939 performance of R.U.R., from the WPA.

Here are some images and a poster from a 2002 production of the play.