Daphne Rubin-Vega stars as a laid-off office worker who spins into a murderous rage in this update of Elmer L. Rice’s 1923 ...
The New Group is presenting a new production of The Adding Machine, directed by Scott Ellis. The play by Elmer L. Rice is ...
For anyone who studied the Theater of the Absurd back in college when the Theater of the Absurd was still being studied, you ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s a good time for Elmer Rice’s “The Adding Machine,” which can only mean that it’s once again a bad time for ...
Originally written in the 1920s, THE ADDING MACHINE explores themes of work, identity, ambition, and alienation. Ideas that feel startlingly contemporary in a world increasingly shaped by automation ...
Mr. Zero is just another cog. He can’t fulfill his own needs, much less those of his wife Mrs. Zero, or his workwife Daisy. But when Mr. Zero’s boss replaces him with a machine, Mr. Zero lashes out ...