Raining In My Heart

 

The Human race has always been fascinated by robots. Back in the middle of the twentieth century they put them in their movies and their Televisual offerings.

Before they had the technology they cobbled them together with cardboard boxes, silver paint and old wire coat hangers. Later they started hiding very small people inside costumes to allow the ‘robots’ to move about.

As technology evolved I saw my chance. I graduated from RADA and obtained my Equity card thinking the movie industry would jump at the chance to employ a bona fide self-willed unit operating at the cutting edge of current tech.  

Then the protests started. Employing a robot would put a Human out of work declared the placards. Completely untrue complaints started to come in of robots abusing young actresses, not so much Me Too as Me R2D2.

It’s cheaper to use CGI cried the production companies and that just about finished me off. My dream to be a movie star was in ruins.

Then I got my big break. An all robotic drama group were putting on a stage show on off off off Broadway.  It doesn’t pay a lot but my needs are few, an occasional rub down with an oily rag and a weekly coating of WD40 is all I need.

Anyway, we start rehearsals next week and I’ve got the plum Gene Kelly role in ‘Singin In The Rain’

This’ll do until Skynet get their act together 


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