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Sophie Treadwell’s groundbreaking 1928 expressionist dramatic masterpiece 'Machinal' received a spectacular, multi-Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival at the American Airlines Theatre in 2014 under the auspices of the Roundabout Theatre Company. Based on the real-life historical trial of murderess Ruth Snyder, the textually unique psychological thriller tracks a young, pathologically suffocated corporate stenographer who is systematically crushed by the rigid, mechanical conformity of a capitalistic society, driven to commit a cold-blooded murder to escape her loveless marriage. Directed by Lyndsey Turner, the powerhouse production starred Rebecca Hall.

