Not only does “Futurity” make a non-contrarian argument about the limits and boundlessness of the imagination, but it also does so with a tone of loving, mournful wonder.
It’s not farfetched to think that the Industrial Age is imagining the Information Age in “Futurity,” the beautiful and ambitious musical written by César Alvarez along with the band he once fronted, the Lisps.
Ada Lovelace and Julian Munroe give heart to the heady, indie-musical “Futurity” at the Aurora Fox. Don Randle brings a tempered martial mien to the General; Damon Guerrasio plays the equally archetypically named Sergeant; and the rest of this nimble ensemble play Munroe’s fellow soldiers. They also play a variety of instruments, at one time holding their guitars and banjo like rifles with bayonets.
The machine itself is a nod to the pivotal and complicated invention of the steam engine and later the cotton gin. Its name and Munroe and Lovelace’s exchanges also foreshadow the arrival of artificial intelligence. When the Steam Brain is up and churning, the gears and noise of it invite optimism but also tease the unintended consequences of technology.
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