An awkward but brilliant inventor falls fervently in love with a boisterous lamp tester and loses her when the company's eccentric founder is caught in a financial panic. Two revolutionaries sort through personal and political tensions at the dawn of democracy. Set in present-day Pittsburgh and 1784 Paris the stories collide an uproarious skewering of industry and statecraft. Combining comedy, satire and pathos and underpinned by a cache of vibrant country and folk music, it questions America 's love affair with business, technology and itself.

Altered Stages
212 W 29th St

Oct 28, 29 and 30, 2004 @ 8pm
Nov 3, 4, 5, and 6, 2004 @ 8pm
Oct 30, 31, Nov 3, 6, and 7, 2004 @ 2pm

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