Shelley and Lovelace Never Met
Theater for the New City present the NYC premiere of a historical drama about two great women.
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- "Finally, a Zany Victorian Period Piece About Accomplishment" - Cultbytes
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The play runs at Theater For The New City for a three-week engagement from January 30th until February 16th, 2025 (Thurs-Sat 8PM/Sun 3PM).
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About the Play
Mary Shelley was a disreputable prodigy and the inventor of science fiction. You’ve heard of her because she wrote Frankenstein. Ada Lovelace was a mathematical genius and the inventor of computer science. You haven't heard of her at all.
Two tumultuous, parallel lives careened across Victorian London, disrupting marriages, academia, and everyone they encountered. And they never met. Isn’t that odd?
Canadian playwrights Becky McKercher and Sarah Thuswaldner wrote “Shelley and Lovelace Never Met”, the conversation that never happened. Directed by Alex Sisk, and performed by Robin Zerbe (Shelley) and Allison Fletcher (Lovelace), the witty, Gothic tribute to forgotten women debuts at Theater For The New City on January 30th, 2025.
The show begins as Shelley and Lovelace meet, quite by chance, at the grave of Lord Byron: friend to Shelley and absent father to Lovelace. At some point, someone pulls out a bottle of wine. They have a lot to get off their chests.