The Adding Machine

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This article is about the stageplay. There is also a collection of essays by William S. Burroughs called The Adding Machine: Collected Essays.

The Adding Machine is a 1923 play by Elmer Rice, and is generally considered to be the first American Expressionist play. The play was an influence on the Tennessee Williams play Stairs to the Roof. Years later, it was adapted into a 1969 film of the same name, written and directed by Jerome Epstein and starring Milo O'Shea, Phyllis Diller, Billie Whitelaw, and Sydney Chaplin.

[edit] External links

• The Adding Machine at the Internet Broadway Database
• Adding Machine Marks 76th Birthday, a 1999 article from Playbill
• 2003 production from an online guide to Chicago, Illinois
• The Adding Machine (1969 film adaptation) at the Internet Movie Database