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Ada and the Machine

CHARLES: Friends! Why don’t we gather pl...

Overview

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 2
Time & Place
The salon of Charles Babbage, England, 1835
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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CHARLES: Friends! Why don’t we gather please. Right here, this way, thank you. Welcome and again, many thanks for your attendance tonight. For those so compelled, I offer you a glimpse at the much-discussed if-you-stand-next-to-me Difference Engine.

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When it is manifested, and soon it will be thanks to your government’s generous funding, the world will know a new way of knowing. Now someone should hand me my rum so I stop ruining a perfectly good party.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Gunderson, Lauren, Ada and the Machine, Dramatist Play Services, 2018, pp. 14-15.

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