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Show Bill Wright to Take Lead in Play at University of Utah Starring in the role of Mr.! Zero, in the play "The Add-1 ing Machine" to be present- j ed in the Babcock Theatre of j the University of Utah Memorial Mem-orial Playhouse will be Wil-! liam (Bill) Wright, son of Mrs. Carol Wright of Parowan. Paro-wan. The presentation will j run from April 16 through April 20, under the direction of Byron McGrath. "The Adding Machine" Elmer El-mer Rice's prophetic 1923 view of how man tends to enslave himself through his own inventions in-ventions social and technological techno-logical may be more meaningful mean-ingful in 1968 than in the year in which the play was written. writ-ten. In his character of Mr. Zero, a nonentity who is to be replaced re-placed in his job of tallying figures by an adding machine, the playwright chronicles man's historic enslavement 1 by his own culture. In his role of Mr. Zero Mr. Wright upon the realization of his plight, kills his boss and is tried and executed. Patricia Soutas, the current Miss Utah, plays Daisy (who represents Hope), who loads Mr. Zero back to earth after his death where his slave nature finds fulfilment in operating a "hyper-super adding machine" with his big toe. After graduation from the Parowan High School where he was prominent in dramatics, drama-tics, Bill went to the U of U from which school he graduated grad-uated in the fall of 1967. He is now teaching English at East High School in Salt Lake City and also working on his doctor's degree in arts, speech and theatre |