THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Shelley & Lovelace Never Met

January 30, 2025 – February 16, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets: $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 90 Minutes, no intermission
CABARET THEATER

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

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.

CAST
Allison Fletcher as Ada Lovelace
Robin Zerbe as Mary Shelley

PRODUCTION
Writer – Becky McKercher and Sarah Thuswaldner
Director – Alex Sisk
Set and Prop Design – Samuel Wiek
Light Design – Andrew Lapointe
Stage Manager – Matthew Seepersad