While negotiating a half billion ransom, a character in this play accidentally gesticulates too much with his hands and touches an electrified fence, which kills him.
While negotiating a half billion ransom, a character in this play accidentally gesticulates too much with his hands and touches an electrified fence, which kills him. One character in this play is disappointed to learn that a new breed of flowers that has been named for her is sterile. Some characters in this play suffer from a namesake "palsy," in which they start randomly breaking things. In this play, an ex-member of the League of Humanity burns a formula that is the secret of production at a factory that has a spinning mill for making nerves. At the end of this play, Radius leads a rebellion that eradicates all humans except Alquist, and Primus and Helena become the Adam and Eve of a new race. For 10 points, name this play by Karel Čapek that introduced a word for mechanical humanoids.
While negotiating a half billion ransom, a character in this play accidentally gesticulates too much with his hands and touches an electrified fence, which kills him.
R.U.R. [or Rossum's Universal Robots; or Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti]