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Preview: NOV 25-26, 2025
Opening: NOV 28, 2025
Closing: DEC 20, 2025
ASL Performance: DEC 2, 2025

$30 Preview Performances
$40 Performances


Ada and the Engine
by Lauren Gunderson

Love letters in numbers
Set in the Victorian era among the houses of intellectual elites, we find Ada, a young female mathematician whose invention of binary code shapes our modern world today. Ada and the Engine, written by America's most produced living playwright, Lauren Gunderson, composes the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, poet Lord Byron's daughter. This lyrical play details the life of Ada as she struggles between the traditional demands of her mother and the pull of her mathematical ambition. Ada sees the creative potential in "The Engine" created by her mentor, the scholar Charles Babbage. As pressures mount and feelings grow, these two form a partnership that will change the course of the future. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age. In celebration of our 10th season, come along with us as we recalculate this music-laced story of love and friendship, the patrons' pick: Ada & The Engine.

CONTENT ADVISORY


adult content advisory
advisory scale 3 of 6
language advisory
advisory scale 1 of 6
violence advisory
advisory scale 1 of 6

Trigger Warning:
A young woman reconciles with her father and her past.
advisory scale 3 of 6 Adult Content: There is adult content. The protagonist is a young woman who is brillant and focused on math over romance even though she has found herself in love by two men. She takes after her father who was a smart man, but he also has a dark past. She works hard to overcome the weight of her father's past and society's expectations of her. There is lots of mathematical language used in this play.

advisory scale 1 of 6 Language: There is very little profanity used. Word Counts - Bastards 1X, Ass 1X, Damned 1X, Damn 1X, Hell 1X

advisory scale 1 of 6 Loud Noises: There are loud noises used. There are metal machine noices.




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