By Elmer Rice and Generative AI Systems

Adapted and Directed by Ryan Guzzo Purcell

Presented in association with the Seattle University Theatre Program

at the Lee Center for the Arts

Zero loses their job to a machine, so they kill their boss. They are then sent on a hallucinatory journey through internet culture, the legal system, the underworld, and the future as they struggle to understand their value.

Written one hundred years ago by Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine is an absurdist parable about automation, labor, exploitation, and the search for meaning.

A century later, The Feast is reinventing this classic work in a new age of mechanical evolution as artificial intelligence encroaches on creative work.

In this multimedia theatre event, both humans and AIs will write, act, direct, and design the play in real-time, creating a revolutionary work of “cyborg theatre.” Can the robots help us fall in love? Feel the divine? See beauty? Defy your boss, your patriarch, your keeper, and find out.