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[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]The Adding Machine is
a play that invites a film-noir style of production. Rice’s view of business
and technology in this play is a decidedly negative one. People are so easily
replaced by technology, until, toward the end, people become almost entirely
unnecessary. For a play written in 1923, that’s quite something. Rice obviously
looked upon advances in technology as something that would be man’s undoing.
Rice’s socialist views in this play are consistent with the time he lived in,
but, interestingly, The Adding Machine is possibly more relevant than ever.


The Plot


The Adding Machine is the
story of Mr. Zero, an employee at a Macy’s-like department store, whose job it
is to add columns of sales figures. Zero, who has been in the same job for 25
years, is expecting a promotion, but when he is fired, he kills his boss. Mr.
Zero is the perfect anti-hero – someone who is unable to understand the extent
to which his inability to learn from the mistakes he himself has made. This
inability to learn results in many negative consequences for Mr. Zero over the
course of his life. From his marriage to a soul-killing wife, to a violent act
he perpetrates at a baseball game, to his inability to declare his love for a
co-worker, Mr. Zero’s life consists of a litany of missed opportunities and
disappointments.



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