Now playing at the Colonial Beach Playhouse is “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” with its final performances running this weekend.
The community theater company, noted for presenting challenging works, is taking on Karel Capek’s futuristic cautionary tale. Fun fact: Capek invented the word “robot.”
The play, with an updated version by Christiansen and Stephen Thompson, follows a young science historian who has discovered Rossum’s work and, with the help of a scientist, starts a business making skilled man-like robots…