{mosimage} GO THE ADDING MACHINE Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist satire has astonishing relevance 84 years later in Scott Alan Smith’s imaginative and nuanced staging. Welcome to the moribund world of Mr. Zero (the outstanding Thomas Kopache), who for 25 years has held a monotonous job as a bookkeeper at a department store, “without missing a day,” he boasts. All is not well with Mr. Zero, however. His boorish wife (Katherine Griffith) constantly browbeats him; he simmers with repressed rage and has chips on his shoulder the size of boulders. Things get worse when the boss (Joe Bays) tells Zero that his job will soon be automated and his services will no longer needed, after which Zero goes berserk and kills him. For this, Zero earns a speedy trial, execution, and a trip to the afterlife where he encounters torments of a different variety. The play applies disturbingly to our increasingly high-tech world of corporate mergers, while it also addresses topical issues of racism, sexism, modernization and class frictions. And all that with stark, smart humor. This is an excellent revival. Circus Theatricals at the HAYWORTH THEATRE, 2511 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.; Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; thru June 23. (323) 960-1054.... More >>>