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Ada
About this book
Play about Ada Lovelace, the first computer and Artificial Intelligence today. Suitable for schools, colleges and youth groups.Offers good roles for girls/women to perform relating to STEM subjects. "You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!" Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada's future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.ADA is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her history with a contemporary story about the potential of artificial intelligence.
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Emily Holyoake
Emily Holyoake is a playwright and dramaturg from Derby. Her plays include Stasis (White Bear Theatre), Real Person Fiction (Exeter Phoenix), and April (The Bike Shed Theatre). She has worked with companies and collectives including Encompass Productions, New Perspectives Theatre Company, The Party Somewhere Else, In Good Company, New Model Theatre, and Peter Nicholson Films.
First published in the UK in 2019 by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
67 Grove Avenue, Twickenham, TW1 4HX
www.aurorametro.com [email protected]
Ada copyright © 2019 Emily Holyoake
Cover image copyright © 2019 Samantha Theobald-Roe
Production: Peter Fullagar
With many thanks to: Marina Tuffier and Angie Thorpe.
All rights are strictly reserved.
For rights enquiries including performing rights, please contact the publisher: [email protected]
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
This paperback is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Printed in the UK by 4edge Limited.
ISBNs:
978-1-912430-09-3 (print)
978-1- 912430-10-9(ebook)
Ada
By
To Mum, Dad, Jess, and Ben, for the trouble-shooting, problem-solving, and breakthroughs.
Acknowledgements
ADA could not and would not have been written without the work and support of the following people: Adam McCready, Julia Locascio, Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, Louise Croft, Rebecca Little, Kate Chapman, Giles Croft, Jeannie Dickinson, Jim Findley, Ben Gilbert, Jessica Holyoake, Gareth Morgan, and Sylvia Robson.
ADA was originally developed by Poetical Machines, in collaboration with Haiku Salut and Julia Locasc...
Table of contents
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