[Chicago-talk] Oktoberfestive social meetup
Hal Wigoda
hwigoda at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 17 22:38:40 PDT 2008
that's funny,
cause that play was my Senior Class Play
and I played the robot that took over the world.
Rossum's Universal Robots.
Radius was his name, no?
Where was the play put on?
hal
On Oct 18, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote:
>
> OK, we've got a 6:30, a 7, and an 8. Median is 7 pm. How is that
> with everybody?
>
> As an aside: I just caught the local performance of the play
> 'R.U.R.', the original Czech play from the 1920's that invented the
> word 'robot'. It turns out that the central ideas behind Blade
> Runner and Terminator are as old as the word itself. And that the
> original concept behind the word 'robot' was bio-tech, not
> mechanical. The play's pretty good too, or, at least, this
> particular production was really well done and very well acted. It
> was a bit wordily melodramatic at points, which almost certainly is
> due to the fashion of the time when the play was written. It's only
> playing this weekend and the next, so Joe Mike Bob says
> check it out.
>
> http://www.strawdog.org/index.php?section=history&production=rur
>
> "If you must see only one play this Halloween about the incipient
> Robot Uprising, make it this one!"
>
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Hal Wigoda wrote:
>
>> I have a guitar class at old town school of folk music at Wilson
>> and lincoln from 6:30 to 8 pm.
>>
>> So I can come after...
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