2006 books

[peteryoung]

17) Karel Capek, R.U.R., 1920
The Czech play that gave us the word 'robot' and one that I suspect would still make for a good performance, especially the lively prologue. It goes where you mostly expect, taking a docile humanoid robotic workforce, winding them up and setting them on the rampage to world domination. Good fun too, and the mighty Capek wrote with a modicum of originality, saying things that have often been rehashed by lesser skiffy down the years.