Join us for this special evening, organized jointly by the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles and the Švanda Theater, and meet Daniel Hrbek, Director of the Švanda Theater, and Zdeněk Vacek, Director of the Memorial of Karel Čapek – Strž, both traveling from Prague for this occasion. 

Guests may choose to attend the staged reading only (complimentary admission, starting at 7:30pm ) or join the delegation led by Mr. Ben Donenberg, Director of the Shakespeare Center in Los Angeles, whose vision and efforts make this entire project possible. He has brought together Mr. Daniel Hrbek and Mr. Zdeněk Vacek, for a sit-down dinner. If you wish to attend the dinner reception (6pm), you can purchase and select your dinner option here.

The evening will also provide an opportunity to meet the newly appointed Consul General of the Czech Republic, Mr. Arnošt Kareš. 

WHEN:
September 25 at dinner starts at 6:00 pm, reading at 7:30 pm 

RESERVATION AND TICKETS:
HERE

LOCATION:
The Athenaeum at the California Institute of Technology. 
551 S Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106 
 

ABOUT THE PLAY:
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles is developing, in partnership with the Consul General of the Czech Republic and the Švanda Theater, a new English language adaptation of the play R.U.R., a 1921 classic of Czech theater written by Karel Čapek. This play, which gave the world the word "robot” confronted utopian notions of science and technology, which were as hotly debated in Čapek’s time as they are today. In producing this culturally prescient play, our aim is to stimulate conversation about the rewards and risks of artificial intelligence, the technology of the present that is generating the same kind of anxiety and excitement that Čapek wrote about so brilliantly over 100 years ago.

Adapted by Talene Monahon

Directed by Jess Chayes

Casting by Claire Yenson, CSA and Rebecca Weiss, CSA

Produced by Keely Cobb

Daniel Hrbek, Theatre director and managing director of Švanda Theatre

Ing. Zdeněk Vacek, Ph.D., Karel Čapek Memorial