R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

age.” Everything is pulled out except #18 and 20 (deep blue). (Five) With explosions in cellar the 2 1500-watt floor lamps at back (red) and brought up quickly to full and worked up and down quickly on dimmer until RADIUS enters, when they remain on full to end of Act. EPILOGUE A frost 1000-watt spot (frost) on stand off stage are lighted and blinded at rise. The blinds are opened when RADIUS exits. The light floods the room through door at R. The blinds are closed when the ROBOT exits on cue: “The Robots are stronger than you.” With entrance of HELENA and PRIMUS the sunrise effect begins. Floor lamp and stand lamp up stage at Right, both amber. With sunrise effect bring up #24 pink and #21 rose-pink. Foots up to 1/2 and overhead Xray (pink, frost, and steel-blue) full up. When all this is up to mark, dim #17 to out.

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[Illustration: SCENE DESIGN--ACT I R·U·R]

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[Illustration: SCENE DESIGN--ACTS 2 & 3 R·U·R]

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[Illustration: EPILOGUE SETTING SAME AS ACT I R·U·R]

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in end punctuation in stage directions have been retained from the original.