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The Adding Machine

Drama

Characters: 14 male, 9 female

5 interior scenes and 2 exterior scenes

This constantly interesting play shows in outline the life history and, in its later scenes, the death history of Mr. Zero, a cog in the vast machine of modern business.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 141 pages

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