Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl

Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl
by Elmer Rice

Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl
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Author: Elmer Rice
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1965-01-01
ISBN: 0809007355
Number of pages: 239
Publisher: Hill and Wang

Book Reviews of Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl

Book Review: Highly unusual and interesting plays!
Summary: 5 Stars

Elmer Rice's first play was the 1923 production The Adding Machine is an eye opening take on the soul of a man, who for 25 years adds up figures in the sales department, never missed a day of work and gets canned for technology, an adding machine. The play is a satirical take on corporation, the evolution of man as the slave, and the afterlife. Very enjoyable.

Street Scene
No producers wanted to take Rice's Street Scene, produced in 1929, because of the many characters, and many plots. So Rice directed the production of 602 performances. The successful 3-act play consists of 27 main characters, 14 non-essential characters, and several passers-by.

The setting is the exterior "walkup" of a New York ugly brownstone tenement. It's an unusually hot day, and the many neighbors are socializing and gossiping about life, the economy, and each other. Then, a tragedy occurs. This is an engaging entertaining play with excellent dialogue and intriguing immigrant characters.

I will update the review as I come across Dream Girl. ....Rizzo

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