Editing The Adding Machine (section)

==Plot==
The author of this play takes us through Mr. Zero’s trial, execution, excursion, and arrest going into the afterlife. During the whole series of this episodic journey, Mr. Zero is surprisingly oblivious to his deepest needs, wants, and desires. The story focuses on Mr. Zero, an accountant at a large, faceless company.  After 25 years at his job, he discovers that he will be replaced by an adding machine.  In anger and pain, he snaps and kills his boss. Mr. Zero is then tried for murder, found guilty, and hanged.  He wakes up in a heaven-like setting known as the "[[Elysium|Elysian Fields]]." Mr. Zero meets a man named Shrdlu, then begins to operate an adding machine until Lieutenant Charles, the boss of the Elysian Fields, comes to tell Zero that he is a waste of space and his soul is going to be sent back to Earth to be reused. The play ends with Zero following a very attractive girl named Hope off-stage.