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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This full keyboard manually operated ...

For anyone who studied the Theater of the Absurd back in college when the Theater of the Absurd was still being studied, you probably didn’t have Elmer L. Rice’s play “The Adding Machine” on your ...

Elmer Rice's expressionist satire The Adding Machine, written a little over a century ago, is the disturbingly relevant tale of an unhappily married middle-aged bookkeeper named Mr. Zero (Daphne Rubin ...

In the final scene of the play, Mr. Zero learns, to his consternation, that reincarnation is nothing but a series of repetitions. Life is reproduced almost like a series of carbon copies, with ...

Eighty-four years on, Elmer Rice continues to harangue about the pitifulness of the human condition in "The Adding Machine." Eighty-four years on, Elmer Rice continues to harangue about the ...

The first line of "Adding Machine: A Musical" asserts, "In numbers, all truth can be revealed." While the play does more to alter the audience's perception of how the world works than to actually ...