Ada and the Engine

Before there were computers, there was Ada.

As the Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the notorious poet Lord Byron) sees something no one else can in the "analytical engine" of her friend Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical computer. She imagines a world where art and information meet, a world she may not live to see.

Laced with music, this is a story of love, friendship and big dreams about the future. Think Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs.

What critics have said about the play

"Wise and witty... a very smart and skillful Victorian parlor drama."
SF Weekly

"A truly fascinating portrait of two lives whose significance to our world would not be fully appreciated for over a century."
Washington City Paper