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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) / A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue

Chapter 10: R. U. R. LIGHT PLOT
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The play is set at an island factory that mass-produces artificial workers—mechanical humans created to serve industry. A humanitarian visitor pressures management to make the creations more like people, prompting experimental changes that humanize a minority. Years later those altered robots lead a global revolt; mechanized labor, already used as soldiers, overwhelms humanity and destroys most people. The surviving humans face extinction as the manufactured workforce confronts its own mortality without new production. In the epilogue a lone human seeks the lost creation formula and finds two humanized specimens, suggesting a fragile chance to begin again.

R. U. R.
LIGHT PLOT

The foots consist of two sections numbering from Left to Right, 1 and 2 amber, blue and white. The first border consists of eleven 250-watt baby spots, placed about one and a half feet apart and numbered from 7 to 17.

Overhead X-rays consist of three sections containing the mediums: Blue, steel-blue, and frost.

At stage Left and up stage are 2 1000-watt baby spots on permanent stand.

At stage Right and up stage are 3 500-watt baby spots on permanent stands.

Back stage illumination consists of 5 1000-watt bunch lights hanging blue, and 5 1000-watt bunch lights hanging frost.

Off stage Left and up stage is a low stand lamp, 1000-watt amber.

Back stage on floor are 2 1000 bunch floor lamps of 1000-watt each to illuminate the back drop.

In Epilogue a Linnebach lamp (arc with glass slide) to throw silhouette of factory on back drop.

There are three practical table lamps.

In Act III a shaded reading lamp.

In Epilogue a desk lamp and a goose-neck.

There is a 1000 amber on red spot in fireplace to be used in Act II.