The gears keep spinning, but we never get anywhere. I suppose it would be difficult not to make a mechanical engine the central metaphor of any play about Ada Byron Lovelace. Daughter of the great Romantic poet Lord Byron, she so excelled in mathematics that she surpassed the era's preeminent mathematician, Charles Babbage, by recognizing the potential his Analytical Engine (arguably the …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on June 26, 2019