Fembots Dream of Romance in Last of the Red Hot Robots

By Jon Manarang

Sex robots. Neanderthal influencers. Intergalactic homicide. Alien on alien romance. No, it’s not a new episode of Futurama, but the play Last of the Red Hot Robots. The campy, theatrical piece by Brian Harris sizzles with a level of absurdism and sexiness that sets a course veering between both objectives with reckless abandon. Presented by Latiné Theater Lab, the show plays the Wilton Manors black box Empire Stage now until September 27.

Last of the Red Hot Robots is told episodically through four seemingly disparate sci-fi vignettes in its 90-minute run time, existing in their own contained universes. Based around six actors, each vignette is performed by three primary casts in each segment, allowing for costume changes backstage but also for each story to unfold in its own unique way. The episodic format carries over a tradition from “The Twilight Zone” that has endured with anthology series like “Love, Death and Robots.”

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