So thrilled to announce that ADA & THE MEMORY ENGINE will premiere this October in Berkeley (in time for Ada Lovelace Day)!
Written by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Gary Graves
Oct 17–Nov 22
Word Premiere #49: A Central Works Method Play
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852): countess, metaphysician… computer programmer!
Estranged daughter of the flamboyant and notorious leader of the Romantic Movement, Lord Byron, young Ada only knows her father through his poetry—nothing more than a haunting memory from the past. But Ada sees the future in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul-mate, Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. A gifted mathematician in her own right, Ada alone foresees the boundless creative potential of Babbage’s engine. As she writes the first computer program, Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge—a world she will not live to see.