Finborough, LondonElmer Rice's 1923 satire about a browbeaten wage slave gets added musical spice in this savagely comic adaptationEuropean expressionism had a big impact on American theatre in the 1920s. It animated Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (1922) and Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (1928), but its most famous example was Elmer Rice's 1923 satire on the enslavement of human beings. In being turned into a musical, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AM on October 2, 2016