#Finborough For Free - Adding Machine: A Musical
Composed by Joshua Schmidt. Libretto by Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt Based on the play The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice.
Composed by Joshua Schmidt. Libretto by Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt Based on the play The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice.
Adding Machine: A Musical is a darkly humorous exploration of a man's existential crisis after being replaced by a machine, based on Elmer Rice's 1923 play, featuring a haunting score and receiving critical acclaim.
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About The Play
WARNING: Adding Machine: A Musical is based on the 1923 play Adding Machine by Elmer Rice. As an indictment and examination of white privilege, it contains racist language that may cause offence.
Age recommendation 12+
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The 2016 Finborough Theatre production of the UK premiere of Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt’s Adding Machine: A Musical.
Ever feel like killing your boss?
After 25 long years spent adding figures in the same soul-crushing job, Mr Zero suddenly finds himself replaced by a machine. For the first time in his life, Zero takes his destiny into his own hands. The consequences set him on a path through this world and beyond, offering him one last chance for love, life and redemption.
Take an extraordinary journey with Mr Zero in this stirring and hilariously dark anti-musical as it asks us to consider the true price of a human soul, told through Joshua Schmidt’s haunting score, inspired by gospel, opera, jazz and rock and roll.
The UK premiere of Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt’s multi-award winning musical adaptation of Elmer Rice’s groundbreaking 1923 play is directed by Josh Seymour, named Best Director at the 2016 Off West End Theatre Awards for One Arm at Southwark Playhouse.
Adding Machine: A Musical won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score.
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