Playing Fridays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., CHILDE BYRON is the impassioned story of Ada Lovelace, a Victorian mathematician who financed Charles Babbage's development of the "Analytical Engine," the precursor to what we know as computers.

Dying of cancer, wracked with pain, and in the throes of a laudanum induced delirium, Ada conjures the ghost of the father she never knew: the modern era's first "rock star," arguably England's finest, and certainly it's most notorious, poet: the "mad, bad and dangerous to know" George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Peopled with characters from Byron's life, including his domineering mother, the choirboy who was Byron's first great love, and Augusta Leigh, the half-sister with whom he had an incestuous affair, CHILDE BYRON is "a fever-dream of a play" (Hedy Weiss, The Chicago Sun-Times) that should not be missed.

FEATURING: Lisa Mercier-Taber as ADA
Steve Torres as THE BOY
Melissa Geston as THE GIRL
Samuel Frank as THE YOUNG MAN
Renee Newlove as THE YOUNG WOMAN
Ricci Mazzuca as THE MAN
Dorian Ranta as THE WOMAN
AND Gregory Taber as LORD BYRON

**CONTAINS MATURE THEMES AND LANGUAGE**

Location: California Arts Academy, Severance, 1401 N. Wishon at Floradora
Starts: 2007 Nov 16 - 8:00pm
Ends: 2007 Dec 9 - 2:00pm
Website: http://www.theatreventoux.net