Oklahoma Christian University - Aerie Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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ABOUT THE PLAY: The Adding Machine was the first in Phoenix College's experimental series of plays. The purpose of Experiment was to provide students and playgoers with new plays, or new methods of produc- tion for older plays, and new ideas in theatrical presen- tation. In The Adding Machine, Elmer Rice has exposed the minds and souls of people. With withering insight he has laid bare the starved and bitter littleness and the huge universality of Mr. Zero's character, the slave type, that from eternity to eternity expresses the futility and the tragedy of the mediocre spirit. Mr. Zero is a pathetic figure symbolic of one social or character level. Nagged by his equally pathetic wife, he kills his boss because he was fired from a iob he held for 25 years. His conviction at the trial, his iourney through paradise, his meeting with odd philosophical characters, and his return to earth all proiect a social belief which goes to make him a generalized failure. Mr. Zero is the Everyman of any age, descend- ant of the apes, Egyptian pyramid builder, Roman galley slave, Medieval fief, and now unemployed bookkeeper, as a result of the In- dustrial Revolution. He is soon to return again to operate a super-hyper adding machine in the automated tomorrow. THE ADDING MACHINE Directed by Mr. John Paul Stage Manager and Assistant to the Director - Jo Ann Yeo Assistant Stage Manager - Roger Miller Production Manager - Bob Johnson Mr. Zero ........................................................................ Lewis Schaflander Mrs. Zero ............................................... ............................ J udy Shogren Daisy Diana Dorothea Devore .... ....... C arol Norton The Boss ..................................... ......... C huck Smith Mr. One ................................. ......... S pyros Petros Mrs. One ..... ...... A nn Valenzuela Mr. Two ...... ................. L arry Lift Mrs. Two ..... ....... P eggy Thurston Mr. Three ....... ......... T om Warner Mrs. Three ..... ..,.. G izelle Beke Mr. Four ....... ...... R oger Miller Mrs. Four ...... ..... J o Ann Yeo Mr. Five ........ ....... D an Thiehoff Mrs. Five ....... ....... D iane Froese Mr. Six ....... .... W arren Katzke Mrs. Six ,.,,,,,,, ..... S haron Soule Policeman ......... .... B ob Johnson Judy O'Grady ,,,,,, ........ D onna Gill Young Man .,.,,,, ...... T om Warner Shrdlu ,,,,,,,,,,,,.,.,, ......... A l Gibbons A Head ,,,,.,.,,.,,,,,,,,,, ........ S pyros Petros Lieutenant Charles .... ..... D ennis Turner Joe ,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ..... D an Tl'llel'l0ff l wonder what it's like to be really kissed, Daisy dreams as Zero predicts: I'll bet he'll give me a raise now that I've worked for 25 years. Oblivious of the other's inner self, each works on at his monotonous bookkeeping.

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'-,fmt -L ...ll F , l ,3 Arsonist or careless smoker? 157 ON JANUARY 22, following a dinner at Mon- ti's Steak House, officers elected to lead the student body for the second semester were installed. Approximately 900 students voted in the December 8 election. lt was announced later that this number was a record for voting at Phoenix College. It was an exchange of old presidents for new January 22. Semester I Semester ll AS Pat Kurtz John Smith AMS Malcolm Read Chuck Orwig AWS Joan Ellen Clark Mary McEowen NEW STUDENTS, Cabout 600 of themj were shown their new campus as they toured from points of interest lclass- roomsl to points of necessity Kthe cat- eteria and snack barb, T K .J .1 a' . fr: lk mimi MFI' l l 7 ya. c fill M wk

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