The New Group will soon present The Adding Machine by Elmer L. Rice, with revisions by Thomas Bradshaw. Directed by Scott ...
The machines are coming for our livelihoods, Dear Readers. That was the fear a century ago with the 1923 play “The Adding Machine” by Elmer Rice. And that sentiment still holds true today with many ...
In “The Adding Machine: A Cyborg Morality Play,” pencil-pushing protagonist Mr. Zero — played in turns by everyone in the cast — endures layers of indignity, losing his job to a machine and getting ...
In Elmer Rice’s 1923 play “The Adding Machine,” an office drone is plunged into existential crisis when his accounting job is replaced by mechanical technology. A hundred years later, artificial ...